Robert Green Ingersoll Famous Quotes
"The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future."
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
"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."
"Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route."
The triumph of justice is the only peace.
In nature there are neither rewards not punishments--there are consequences.
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
"Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe a dungeon."
Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment-it is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll Quotations
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.
Johann von Goethe
Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.
Lady Violet Bonham Carter
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli
"To a talkative woman Madam, don't you have any unexpressed thoughts"
Barry Neil Kaufman
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."
Ambrose Redmoon
Health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson
Natural abilities are like natural plants they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon
"In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge."
William Baker
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
Merry Browne
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
Alan Alda