Persuasive Quotes

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

The chief justice is the titular head of the third branch in the U.S. and abroad. You`re looking for someone with the intellectual and leadership skills that can be a persuasive force in conference and the wider world.

Icahn is going to have to be very persuasive with shareholders for those holders to abandon the company.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.

(Vilsack says FEMA has asked Iowa for a list of the kind of permanent and temporary housing that`s available for hurricane victims.) Nobody wants to sleep on a cot for six months. Nobody wants to sleep in a place where there are 15,000 other people, ... To the extent that states can provide better detailed information about the housing opportunities, that may be persuasive to a lot of families.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.