Rhetoric Quotes - Page 2

John F. Kennedy responded, as he often did when at his best, skillfully mixing dollops of wit with, self-deprecation, and the principle of not-really-going-near-the-question.

David Pietrusza

It is useful to remember that no matter where we turn, there is rarely any shortage of elevated ideals to accompany the resort to violence.

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.

Alexander Cockburn

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Robert A. Heinlein

Rhetoric abounds in the cemeteries of reason.

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly apt and peculiarly his own.

Barbara W. Tuchman

At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.

Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those folks to be retired, be they teachers, administrators, or community leaders, so the rest of us can try to do some real work in the service of equal access for black students and all students. (15)

As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children didn’t have it. It seemed to come later on, possibly as a result of school itself.That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don’t imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A’s. Originality on the other hand could get you anything – from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.

Robert M. Pirsig

It is always healthy to be honest.

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

The problem arises when a society respects its scholars lesser and lesser and replaces intellectualism with anti-intellectualism. Such society forces the most intellectual members of its, toward alienation and instead develops populism and irrationalism and then calls it anti-elitism. On the other hand, scholars, due to being undermined by the society, find any effort hopeless and isolate themselves into their work. For a scholar, personally, nothing changes because the scholar always is a scholar no matter having someone to share the knowledge with or not, but the true problem forms in the most ordinary sections of the society, which eventually creates an opportunity for propaganda, conspiracy theories, rhetoric, and bogus.

Kambiz Shabankare

History never repeats itself, historians do.

Seed becomes tree, son becomes stranger.

Before you worry about the beauty of your body, worry about the health of your body.

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.

Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

My spouse is my shield, my spouse is my strength.

Principles in a poor is admirable as politeness in a prince.

Faster is fatal, slower is safe.

Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.

Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress.

In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.

Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.

The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.

Words are better than weapons, wisdom is better than war.

Don't compare the size of your roof with the size of the sky.

Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.

Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.

Simplicity saves strength.

Action achieves ambition.

Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.

A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

Anything which you have in profusion is poison

Prudence is precaution, prudence is protection.

Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.

For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society,

If she says goodbye, someone else will say hi.

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

Routine ruins the life, variety vitalise the life.

During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.

In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.

Passion makes you good, but pride stops you to get better.

The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.

The mistakes of the world are warning message for you.

Don't mention your move before you make a move.

The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.

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