38 Quotes By Robert Green Ingersoll


My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert Green Ingersoll on happiness

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Robert Green Ingersoll on hope

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Robert Green Ingersoll on hope

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Robert Green Ingersoll on hope

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll on love

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
Robert Green Ingersoll on men

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
Robert Green Ingersoll on men

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Robert Green Ingersoll on nature

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll on nature

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Robert Green Ingersoll on religion

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

Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.
Robert Green Ingersoll on science

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Robert Green Ingersoll on strength

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert Green Ingersoll on time

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert Green Ingersoll on time

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
Robert Green Ingersoll on truth

An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll on work

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll on courage