"The matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice."

Rhetoric, Skill, Nature, Knowledge, Practice

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"The matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice."

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"I got my degree in rhetoric."

Alex Borstein, American Actress

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"Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Rhetoric, Persuasion, Character, Credibility, Trust

"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary and nothing but what is necessary."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Rhetoric, Clarity, Speech, Simplicity, Expression

"Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding."

David Hume, Scottish Philosopher

Rhetoric, Eloquence, Reason, Reflection, Understanding

"You aren't in the ivy halls of your miserable literature pursuit now. Without wasting more time, will thou cometh to the pointeth? Dost thou wanteth us to stayeth or leaveth?"

Pawan Mishra, Indian Author

Rhetoric, Satire, Impatience, Dialogue, Authority

"It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk."

Joshua Reynolds, English Artist

Rhetoric, Eloquence, Poor, Talk

"It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Rhetoric, Shame, Defense, Speech, Reason

"Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Rhetoric, Persuasion, Observation, Speech

"It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Rhetoric, Education, Speech, Audience

"Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful."

Earl Butz, American Civil Servant

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"I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict."

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"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."

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"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."

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"I got my degree in rhetoric."

"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary and nothing but what is necessary."

"Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding."

"You aren't in the ivy halls of your miserable literature pursuit now. Without wasting more time, will thou cometh to the pointeth? Dost thou wanteth us to stayeth or leaveth?"

"It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk."

"It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs."

"Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art."

"Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful."

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"I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict."

"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."

"Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty."

"Democracy passes into despotism."

"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."

"Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?"

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

"Science is nothing but perception."

"The wisest have the most authority."

"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."