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Quotes from How to Argue and Win Every Time — Gerry Spence

1929–2025 United States

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)

Use simple words, words that create pictures and action and that generate feeling.

How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)

To freely bloom — that is my definition of success.
The question then is, How does arguing with our children advance our goal that our children freely bloom.

How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)

The stain of prejudice is often indelible.

How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)

The power argument is an argument so powerful in its structure, so compelling in its delivery that when we assume the power stance the argument cannot be defeated.

How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)

When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)

If I am real, if I am speaking from the heart zone, the right words will come. They will come a spoonful at a time, in the proper mixture.

How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)

Everyone wants to argue. Everyone does. Everyone needs to.

How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)

There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little-known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academicians.

How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)

While birds can fly, only humans can argue. Argument is the affirmation of our being. It is the principal instrument of human intercourse. Without argument the species would perish.

How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)

Our prejudices — we all have them — are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie lurking at the bottom of the subterranean mind where the slowly ooze up and color our thinking without our knowing it.

How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gerry Spence (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.