Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
“Citizens of Foreign Birth]”, (10 May 1915)
1910s
“It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.”
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Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) British writer and philosopher
"The Sublime and the Good", in the Chicago Review, Vol. 13 Issue 3 (Autumn 1959) p. 51.
Source: Existentialists and Mystics Writings on Philosophy and Literature
“Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.”
Theodore L. Cuyler (1822–1909) American minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 477.
Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic
"The Lover and the Beloved", p. 1.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
George Henry Lewes (1817–1878) British philosopher
The Principles of Success in Literature (1865)
Context: A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief. There is no influence issuing from unbelief or from languid acquiescence. This is peculiarly noticeable in Art, because Art depends on sympathy for its influence, and unless the artist has felt the emotions he depicts we remain unmoved: in proportion to the depth of his feeling is our sympathetic response; in proportion to the shallowness or falsehood of his presentation is our coldness or indifference.
“Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) British writer and philosopher
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“He seeks not to convince but to arouse — to challenge others to form free opinions.”
Karl Popper (1902–1994) Austrian-British philosopher of science
On Freedom (1958)
Context: The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince; all the time he is aware that he may be wrong. Above all, he values the intellectual independence of others too highly to want to convince them in important matters. He would much rather invite contradiction, preferably in the form of rational and disciplined criticism. He seeks not to convince but to arouse — to challenge others to form free opinions.
“My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Farewell, p. 453
1920s, An Autobiography (1927)