#persuade

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. ↗

— John Ciardi

#better #better idea #happens #idea #looking

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#better #brother #ii #keeper #know

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support. ↗

— George Washington

#always #among #christians #citizens #good

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#else #go #hear #know #like

Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#better #cares #confirmed #convinced #evidence

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#anything #oneself #only #persuade #real

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...? ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#death #famine #life #order #our

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#consent #contacts #critical #experiences #help

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#basic #became #economics #foreign #gradually

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. ↗

— Robert Southey

#each #friendship #lapse #lessen #other