Persuasion
The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination.
The state of being persuaded or convinced; settled opinion or conviction, which has been induced.
A creed or belief; a sect or party adhering to a certain creed or system of opinions; as, of the same persuasion; all persuasions are agreed.
The power or quality of persuading; persuasiveness.
That which persuades; a persuasive.
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Persuasion Quotations
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
Henry David Thoreau
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Aristotle
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
Aristotle
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
Thomas B. Macaulay
I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.
George W. Bush
Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Aesop
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
William Bernbach
First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
Huston Smith
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Thomas Carlyle
In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
Tony Campolo
Persuasion Translations
persuasion in Dutch is overreding
persuasion in French is persuasion, croyance
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