Quotes with persuasive

  • Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

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  • Janet Frame ''For your own good'' is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
    Janet Frame
    New Zealand author (1924 - 2004)
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  • Aldous Huxley How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Philip Roth It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Homer Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • John F. Kennedy The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • David Ogilvy The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Barry Eisler The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Mark Twain There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Lao-Tzu Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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