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

—Gerry Spence

About Gerry Spence

Portrait of Gerry Spence

Gerald Leonard Spence (January 8, 1929 – August 13, 2025) was an American trial lawyer and author. He was a member of the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame and was the founder of the Trial Lawyers College. Spence never lost a criminal trial before a jury, either as a prosecutor...

More quotations tagged with “belief”

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

—George Bernard Shaw

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

—Bertrand Russell

Man is what he believes.

—Anton Chekhov

What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us-what convictions, what courage, what faith-win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principal can.

—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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