Famous quotes containing the word convince:
“As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)
“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)