Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Jonson

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

Aldous Huxley

The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.

Charles Williams

We're trying to keep oratory alive. There is still a place for this.

David Hare

In oratory the will must predominate.

Thomas Carlyle

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Plutarch

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Samuel Johnson

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

Thomas B. Macaulay

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

Edward Gibbon

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . .

Homer

A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

Scottish Proverbs

He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock.

Herodotus

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

Plato

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

John Owen

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

John Calvin

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.