Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

This century will be called 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more of the phenomena of life than all of the religious teachers. . Think of the me...

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.

Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question,...

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better...

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This...

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

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

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

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

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.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.

It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable...

Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of j...

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.