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"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see." »Henry David Thoreau
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"If you cannot convince them, confuse them." »Harry S Truman
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"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way." »Josh Billings
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"convinced myself, I seek not to convince." »Edgar Allan Poe
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"If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend." »Abraham Lincoln
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"It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist." »Charles Baudelaire
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"When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing they are as clever as you." »Irving Layton
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"A God who is trying to convince people that He is a God is not a God! He is just a clown disguised as a God! No supreme power can be in need of convincing men!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on." »Charles Manson
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"Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically." »Calvin Trillin
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"The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them." »Harold S. Geneen
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"The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions." »Plato
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"Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace." »Frederick W. Taylor
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"Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerably amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and convince his employer that he is going at a good price." »Frederick Winslow Taylor
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"There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right." »Woodrow Wilson
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"There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right." »Woodrow Wilson, Speech in Philadelphia, May 10, 1915
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"Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open." »Clive
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"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people." »Zig Ziglar
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"Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy." »Ernest Rutheford
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"We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable." »Goethe
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"When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one." »Abraham Lincoln
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