Art Of Rhetoric Quotes

#1. To suffer is better than to do evil;' and the art of rhetoric is described as only useful for the purpose of self-accusation.

Plato

#2. When you enjoy the little beauties in and around you, it costs you nothing.

Debasish Mridha

#3. An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stross

#4. To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business - not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into ... rhetoric and plot.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Barbara W. Tuchman

#6. Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

Eric Hoffer

#7. The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction.

Maria Montessori

#8. Art has always been this
pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric
whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.

Samuel Beckett

#9. A 2007 Harris poll found that 71 percent of Americans believed that the continued burning of fossil fuels would alter the climate. By 2009 the figure had dropped to 51 percent. In June 2011 the number was down to 44 percent - well

Naomi Klein

#10. HANNAH: Don't let Bernard get to you. It's only performance art, you know. Rhetoric, they used to teach it in ancient times, like PT. It's not about being right, they had philosophy for that. Rhetoric was their chat show. Bernard's indignation is a sort of aerobics for when he gets on television.

Tom Stoppard

#11. Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.

Rachel Zoe

#12. The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick).

Robert Hooke

#13. I would never repudiate the fact that I am an Irishman

Ian Paisley

#14. The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a rhetoric of walking. The art of "turning" phrases finds an equivalent in an art of composing a path.

Michel De Certeau

#15. Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Charles Caleb Colton

#16. The sole object of Logic is the guidance of one's own thoughts: the communication of those thoughts to others falls under the consideration of Rhetoric, in the large sense in which that art was conceived by the ancients; or of the still more extensive art of Education.

John Stuart Mill

#17. Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

Alice Meynell

#18. Computers, it seemed, could be programmed to do almost anything but sense when someone was up to no good.

James S.A. Corey

#19. That out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art.

Frank Lentricchia

#20. Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#21. Reader, if thou intendest to go any farther, I would entreat thee to stay here a little. If thou art, as many in this pretending age, a sign or title gazer, and comest into books as Cato into the theatre, to go out again, - thou hast had thy entertainment; farewell!

John Owen

#22. The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.

Immanuel Kant

#23. Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable
all communication is rhetoric in action.

Leonard Koren

#24. The thing is that my idols have always been the types of guys who could do anything: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Sinatra, Dean Martin; and when you look up to people like that, you don't accept that you need to be compartmentalised.

Justin Timberlake

#25. Our biggest problem is that we have an entire culture shaped by a misunderstanding of the gospel. That so-called gospel is deconstructing the church

Scot McKnight

#26. From her character in the HBO miniseries: The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

Abigail Adams

#27. 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.

#28. 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