38 Quotes By Robert Green Ingersoll


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 on age

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll on anger

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

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

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 courage

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 on courage

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert Green Ingersoll on courage

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 death

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

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Robert Green Ingersoll on death

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Robert Green Ingersoll on death

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll on education

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

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Robert Green Ingersoll on fear

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
Robert Green Ingersoll on god

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

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Robert Green Ingersoll on god

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 good

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 happiness

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll on happiness