Convincing Argument Quotes

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Reasonable, sensible men can always make a reasonable scheme appear such to other reasonable men.

You've got to tell people how it is that you've come to believe what you do.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

I research every possible bit of information I can find. Then I use about a tenth of it. But I have to know all the information first; otherwise, I'm not going to convince myself, and if I can't convince myself, then I'm not going to convince the reader.

He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.

I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.

I'm right, and you're smart, and sooner or later you'll see I'm right.

We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.

A man convinced against his will is not convinced.

My determination is not to remain stubbornly with my ideas, but I'll leave them and go over to others as soon as I am shown plausible reasons which I can grasp.

The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.

Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the body of fact that exists on the mind of the general public.

There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

declaring itself in ways more impressive to the tremulous politician than the most convincing argument.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.

Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive.

People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the position.

I am not an irretrievable skeptic. I am not hopelessly prejudiced. I am perfectly willing to believe, and my mind is wide open; but I have, as yet, to be convinced. I am perfectly willing, but the evidence must be sane and conclusive.

And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting quite quietly and making a point in a way that you don't really know that this point is going to be made through several examples, and there will be not be a break in the speaking voice at any point.

Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.