Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

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Robert Green Ingersoll

Profession : Lawyer

Birth : August 11, 1833

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

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

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

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power.

Robert Green Ingersoll