Muhammad Quotes

I wish I could talk like Donald Trump or Steve Wynn. Hell, I'd love it.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

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.

A great speech is literature.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

I often begin a thought with spirit and finish it with nonsense. The chain of my argument often escapes me, and when lost can seldom be retrieved. These faults are so overpowering that I should sink into perpetual silence were it not that sometimes in ardor of debate, when my feelings are wound up to a high tone, elocution pours itself along with unusual rapidity, and I have passages which would not shame a good speaker; this is the only thing that makes me tolerable to others or to myself.

I [Moses] am not a man of words.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust, not in the right argument, but in the right word.

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker.

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

I could sway people with words—words that welled up within me.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable …

As reason is the glory of man, so the lamp of reason is eloquence.