Famous quotes containing the word persuaded:
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses ... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)
“...I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)