Pathos Ethos Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the audience into the right kind of emotional receptivity; and the logos, or the argument itself, carried out by abbreviated syllogisms, or something like deductive syllogisms, and by the use of example. — Randal Marlin

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism. — William James

Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos. — Mason Cooley

It turns out that value investing is something that is in your blood. There are people who just don't have the patience and discipline to do it, and there are people who do. So it leads me to think it's genetic. — Seth Klarman

The house is always full, and we're always cooking - outside, inside, for six, eight, a dozen, 20 people. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time. — Idries Shah

Good things come to those who have patience and take consistent, persistent actions toward what they want. — Jeffrey Gitomer

It was frustrating, the way this siblings worshipped their parents. What part of their worlds would crumble if they took a good look at their parents' flaws? If there was no trauma, why not talk about the everyday, human elements of their upbringing? Call a spade a spade. — Angela Flournoy

The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined. — Evelyn Glennie

Everything was so broken, but it would heal. Saxonia will heal. Hollownot will heal. Everything will heal.

I was broken. I will heal.

It is certainty that destroys the souls of men. — J.M. McDermott

You deserve the same love that you are willing to give — Keysha Jade

I always listen," the duke said, annoyed. "Just hang your silly, unnatural notion, that hearing means following your orders. — Janny Wurts

Then too there was the irrepressible librarian in her who could not stand by and watch a human being in distress without leaping to her aid, whether that person could not find the coin slot on the copier or was on the brink of domestic destruction. — Jennifer Tseng

In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade. The pathos is his ability to touch feelings to move people emotionally. The logos is his ability to give solid reasons for an action, to move people intellectually. — Mortimer Adler

Some people would rather suffer the consequences of procrastination than the humiliation of trying and not doing as well as they had hoped. — Jane B. Burka

...despite rumors to the contrary, you're on the side of the angels. (...) Whether you like it or not. — Ian Rankin

In book two of his Rhetoric,2 Aristotle identified and explained three means of persuasion that a speaker may use: logos, pathos, and ethos. Logos is the logical argumentation and patterns of reasoning used to effect persuasion. Pathos includes the emotional involvement of both the speaker and the audience as they achieve persuasion. Ethos refers to the character of the speaker — R. Larry Overstreet

Nobody says anything to me now when it comes to Japanese. They actually ask me things. I now have power! — Seungri