Top 56 Persuades Quotes
#1. Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything absolute. If it persuades, it does so only because our experience has given it its persuasive power, but tomorrow our experience might be different.
David F. Wells
#2. A man
poet, prophet, or whatever be may be
readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#3. The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.
Moses Mendelssohn
#4. At a moment when distortions of Islam are what feed most Americans, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin has done something both practical and inspiring. He persuades us that the imperiled environment is both common struggle and common ground for people who share, it turns out, more than simply God.
John Hockenberry
#5. The enemy of creativity ... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
Seth Godin
#7. If our subject persuades himself to believe contrary to the evidence in order to evade, somehow, the unpleasant truth to which he has already seen that the evidence points, then and only then is he clearly a self-deceiver.
Herbert Fingarette
#8. Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.
Ovid
#9. God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us. - Sinclair Ferguson
Randy Alcorn
#10. The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
Michel De Montaigne
#11. Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful.
"Ain't hateful, just persuades him- 's not like you'd chunk him in the fire," Jem growled.
"How do you know a match don't hurt him?"
"Turtles can't feel , stupid," said Jem.
"Were you ever a turtle, huh?
Harper Lee
#12. I shall leave the world, I feel, with more satisfaction for having come to know you. Knowing you persuades me more than the Bible of our immortality
Herman Melville
#13. The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.
Laurence Olivier
#14. We are not cowed into timidity by death and life. Were we forced to rely on our own shabby resources we would be pitiful people in deed. But the awareness of Christ's present risenness persuades us that we are buoyed up and carried on by a life greater than our own.
Brennan Manning
#15. The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.
E. Stanley Jones
#16. Technology creates the context for persuasion, but content persuades. Technology helps get content to the right people at the right time. The content still has to influence. Delivering the wrong content at the right time is as bad as delivering the right content at the wrong time.
Colleen Jones
#17. Within every one of us there lives both a Don Quixote and a
Sancho Panza to whom we hearken by turns; and though Sancho
most persuades us, it is Don Quixote that we find ourselves obliged
to admire ...
Anatole France
#18. Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.
Lucian
#19. Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.
Rajneesh
#20. No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.
Francois Fenelon
#21. Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#22. The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit.
Samuel Johnson
#23. We communicate with passion and passion persuades.
Anita Roddick
#24. What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods and vermin is ideology.
Terry Eagleton
#25. The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.
Aristotle.
#26. A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#27. With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.
Akif Pirincci
#28. If it is the devil that tempts the young to enjoy themselves, is it not the same personage that persuades the old to condemn their enjoyment? And is not condemnation perhaps merely a form of excitement appropriate to old age?
Bertrand Russell
#29. Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.
Voltaire
#31. Credibility sets the stage. Logic leads to conclusion. Emotion leads to action. Strategically balancing all three persuades conversion.
Alex Harris
#32. Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
John Henry Newman
#33. I shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile
E. E. Cummings
#34. A person's life persuades better than his word.
Aristotle.
#35. Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
Fulton J. Sheen
#36. What is there," Owain wondered aloud, to the sky above him and the soil below, "persuades this man still that my words do not mean what they seem to mean in sane men's ears?
Edith Pargeter
#37. J.S. Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.
Roger Fry
#38. Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.
Kenneth Clark
#39. Religion is a powerful weapon that can be used because it persuades people to do things. And thus it can be used for good or ill. But it should not be a powerful weapon at all.
Richard Dawkins
#40. Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.
Samuel Johnson
#41. Human beings love, despite their compulsions to limit it and exploit it chaotically. Their love persuades them to make vows, build houses and turn their passion ultimately to duty.
Germaine Greer
#42. When I go to a show, all I really want is to hear a performance that sounds legitimate, and not just going through the motions. I'm not sure any amount of jumping up and down really persuades me in either direction.
Dan Bejar
#43. The Holy Spirit never uses guilt or shame to persuade us to give. For that matter, he never persuades us to give in the first place. That's called manipulation, a device employed by a different spirit.
Ron Brackin
#44. Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
Tertullian
#45. The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
Thomas Carlyle
#46. If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.
Mitch Daniels
#47. Let us keep our shame and be made clean! Shame is not defilement, though a mean pride persuades men so. On the contrary, the man who is honestly ashamed has begun to be clean.
George MacDonald
#48. The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.
Eugene Ionesco
#49. My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the manner of the other creatures, but are instead participants in a reality that utterly exceeds our powers of description.
Marilynne Robinson
#50. Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
Samuel Johnson
#51. Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and the linguistic veil itself, Killarney Clary's new book-her best to date-dwells, plumbs, persuades and thrills.
Jorie Graham
#52. When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Euripides
#53. The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
Helen Vendler
#54. The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.
David Lloyd-Jones
#55. Force persuades a person to speak, but it cannot guarantee his honesty. Quite the reverse: it will extract confessions from innocents and lies from simple sinners ...
Meredith Duran
#56. It's not the lies he tells, it's the seductive way in which he persuades you they are not true.
Virginia Alison
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