Art Of Persuasion Quotes

#1. [M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

Plato

#2. Advertising is the art of persuasion.

William Bernbach

#3. Politics is the art of persuasion. Good ideas die because due to a lack of charisma or character.

A.E. Samaan

#4. The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

Laurence Olivier

#5. I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust.

Gorgias

#6. So you think that the coco- mark well what I say, Hastings, the coco- contained strychnine?"
"Of course! That salt on the tray, what else could it have been?"
"It might have been salt." replied Poirot placidly.

Agatha Christie

#7. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing;

Kahlil Gibran

#8. I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so say for example if look at William Gibson and his book Neuromancer or if you look at J.G. Ballard or Samuel Delaney those are probably three of my favorite writers in that genre.

DJ Spooky

#9. In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance

Thomas Jefferson

#10. Even in a hostile press conference with hostile questions there was drama, and he could benefit from the drama and the hostility. He mastered the greatest art of television, appearing to be spontaneous without in fact being spontaneous.

David Halberstam

#11. Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

John Milton

#12. In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#13. I think a Donald Trump presidency raises a new kind of version of conservatism which more closely resembles a kind of Father Coughlin, America first populism and nativism and isolationism, than the confident, modern, cosmopolitan, thoughtful, engaged conservatism of Ronald Reagan and Paul Ryan.

Bret Stephens

#14. It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.

Camilla Belle

#15. Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.

Joan Z. Borysenko

#16. The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#17. By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.

Abe Ajay

#18. I'd trade my hand all over again to take back everything I did and hear him call me Sunshine.

Katja Millay

#19. Persuasion is not a science but an art

William Bernbach

#20. Art's power of persuasion resides in the small personal details of one's own story, and if it weren't for my struggle with dyslexia, I doubt I'd ever have become a writer or known how to teach others to write.

Philip Schultz

#21. Being of good cheer makes it possible for us to turn all of our sunsets into sunrises.

Marvin J. Ashton

#22. There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.

Clive Barker

#23. Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

William Bernbach

#24. Can I actually make a difference? Can I get people to believe in politics once again? Can I get people to accept more complex answers to complex questions? I know I can. I know that's what I do very well.

Justin Trudeau

#25. Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.

Rick Perlstein

#26. Advertising is simply a use of the right of the manufacture to present his case and to employ the same arts of appeal and persuasion accorded to the politician, the preacher, the lawyer, and to every other individual who has a special interest in something, whether a creed or a commodity.

Raymond Rubicam

#27. Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind.
'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom

Joseph Goldstein

#28. As a writer, you explore all kinds of different emotions.

Ishmael Reed

#29. Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Aristotle.