Rhetoric Quotes
These are some of the best 'Rhetoric' quotations and sayings.
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All a rhetorician's rules teach nothing but to name his tools.
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All the arts of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment.
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Mere rhetoric, in serious discourses, is like flowers in corn, pleasing to those who look only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.
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Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
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Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed, and argument put in order.
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
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Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason.
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The best rules of rhetoric are, to speak intelligently; speak from the heart; have something to say; say it; and stop when you've done.
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The florid, elevated, and figurative way is for the passions; for love and hatred, fear and anger, are begotten in the soul by showing their objects out of their true proportion, either greater than the life, or less; but instruction is to be given by showing them what they naturally are. A man is to be cheated into passion, but reasoned into truth.
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There is truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
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