Convincing Arguments Quotes

I argue very well. Just ask any of my remaining friends.

… another man‘s opinion rarely convinces.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.

Ultimately the most challenging thing, always, is to just be convincing

Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.

not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.

I don't think comedy really does change people's minds; I think you can only get someone who is almost ready to change their mind. You can't change someone from one direction straight into the other, but if you get someone who is considering your view, and you make a good point, there's power in that.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

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

If there is one thing that I take pride in, it is the fact that I never, ever make a charge without offering a substantial amount of support for it. You may ultimately end up not agreeing with me, but you will have to concede that I offered much evidence in support of my position, something that people frequently do not do.

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

When you start writing things to try to persuade someone who's not already part of your guild or your profession that something is interesting, it forces you to ask yourself, "Well, why is this interesting?"

Political activity means working for the future; the more we look into the future the more far-sighted will our policy be - so much the more clear and decided. The less far we try to see into the future, the more we content ourselves with the daily routine (Alltäglichkeit), the more weak and uncertain will be our policy of to-day. Every politician of note must, therefore endeavor out of the present to conclude what the future will be, and, if he wants to win the masses to his politics then he must attempt to make his expectations of the future plausible

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

A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

Thoughts convince thinkers; for this reason, thoughts convince seldom.

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

Impressive claims are made far more impressive by making them exact

Talk to the man with the reasons why.

Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.