Top 26 Rhetorician's Quotes

#1. It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

Aristotle.

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#2. Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.

Plato

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#3. Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

Winston Churchill

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#4. The rhetorician need not know the truth about things; he has only to discover some way of persuading the ignorant that he has more knowledge than those who know.

Plato

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#5. anarchism is to Marxism-Leninism what Anabaptism was to the magisterial Reformation: a revolutionary movement predicated upon negating, rather than seizing control of, state power.

Mark Van Steenwyk

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#6. I was in them million dollar meetings, he was cheatin. All up in the church, he was sneakin wit the deacon.

Nicki Minaj

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#7. 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

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#8. The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

Richard M. Weaver

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#9. For it is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs.

Aristotle.

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#10. No one needs to teach you to be mean; we need to be taught to be kind.

Nikki Giovanni

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#11. Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.

Gore Vidal

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#12. Where is the church when it hurts? If the church is doing its job - binding wounds, comforting the grieving, offering food to the hungry - I don't think people will wonder so much where God is when it hurts. They'll know where God is: in the presence of God's people on earth.

Philip Yancey

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#13. A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Benjamin Disraeli

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#14. Then, when the rhetorician is more persuasive than the physician, the ignorant is more persuasive with the ignorant than he who has knowledge? - is not that the inference?

Plato

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#15. Kellyanne opened the car door and crawled into my bedroom. Her face was puffy and pale and fuzzed-over. She just came in and said: "Ashmol, Pobby and Dingan are maybe-dead." That's how she said it.

Ben Rice

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#16. Remind yourself daily that there is no way to happiness; rather, happiness is the way.

Wayne W. Dyer

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#17. I hate to point out the obvious, but here's this tiny bird that's been trying to get through a huge bulletproof glass wall. A totally impossible situation. You tell me it's been here every day pecking away persistently for ten minutes. Well, today the glass wall came down.

Kevin Kwan

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#18. I usually begin a poem in longhand. I like to sit where I have a nice view, ideally, although I worked on haiku this weekend at an airport. I'm not one to romanticize inspiration. I try to get to the work.

Pat Mora

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#19. To lose time in the manufacture of cut-and-dried constitutions is, in consequence, a puerile task, the useless labour of an ignorant rhetorician. Necessity and time undertake the charge of elaborating constitutions when we are wise enough to allow these two factors to act

Gustave Le Bon

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#20. When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.

Walter Savage Landor

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#21. The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.

Andrew Wyeth

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#22. Sometimes it seems like America is the Christian and Israel is the little Jew they love in this fetishistic way. Like, you're my little sister and I'll kick anyone's ass that messes with you. But when we're alone and no one's looking I'll harass you.

Jill Soloway

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#23. The Bible is chock-a-block with such unnecessary but beautiful antitheses. God, whatever his other failings, is a great rhetorician.

Mark Forsyth

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#24. A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Benjamin Disraeli

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#25. Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

Barbara Kingsolver

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#26. I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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