Noun
The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination.
The state of being persuaded or convinced; settled opinion or conviction, which has been induced.
A creed or belief; a sect or party adhering to a certain creed or system of opinions; as, of the same persuasion; all persuasions are agreed.
The power or quality of persuading; persuasiveness.
That which persuades; a persuasive.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. Themistocles
Persuasion is better than force. Aesop
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. Thomas Babington Macaulay
The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be - this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable. Parmenides
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof. Aeschylus
He that has truth in his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. John Ruskin