Jim Jefferies Quotes

You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it.

I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.

We may convince others by our argument; but we can only persuade them by their own.

I can't force people to agree with me.

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you are explaining, you are losing.

Sometimes your advice prevails; sometimes it doesn’t prevail. It’s not a matter of winning or losing.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

I am good at persuading people. In convincing the other, I try to start from their point of view so it's easier for me to find a common denominator.

It's hard to win people's minds over. The only way to change their minds is to perform.

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.

A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

Yes, I have a philosophy, and you have to come with good arguments to change that philosophy, but, if someone has a better argument than me, then I will change.