The 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. 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

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

Barbara W. Tuchman

#8. 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

#9. 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

#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. 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

#12. Persuasion is not a science but an art

William Bernbach

#13. 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

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

Clive Barker

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

William Bernbach

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

Rick Perlstein

#17. 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

#18. 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.