Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Robert Green Ingersoll

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Robert Green Ingersoll

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the va...

Robert Green Ingersoll

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

Robert Green Ingersoll

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There is no slavery but ignorance.

Robert Green Ingersoll