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“Persuasion is better than Force.” Aesop, Aesop's Fables
“Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
“Within every one of us there lives both a Don Quixote and a Sancho Panza to whom we hearken by turns; and though Sancho most persuades us, it is Don Quixote that we find ourselves obliged to admire...” Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
“it is so easy to convert others. It is so difficult to convert oneself.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“It is therefore worth while to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent and moderate our persuasion.” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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self admiration teaching force knowledge mind understanding reason opinion others wrong uncertainty deceit ideas conversion

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Blaise Pascal (1)
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Pensées (1)
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Intentions (1)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (1)
Northanger Abbey (1)
Emile, or On Education (1)
Aesop's Fables (1)