We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

We are in general more easily convinced by reasons that we have discovered ourselves, than by those suggested to us by others.

One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.

I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes of peaceful persuasion applied to material problems rather than through wars, riots and bloodshed.

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and, depend upon it, you will catch their judgments, such as they are.

To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

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.

Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teachers sake.