Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

43 Famous Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
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“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.”
Anger Quotes
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
Courage Quotes
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
Courage Quotes
“Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.”
Custom Quotes
“A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.”
Debt Quotes
“If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.”
Disease Quotes
“An honest God is the noblest work of man.”
God Quotes
“Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.”
Labor Quotes
“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.”
Liberty Quotes
“By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.”
Liberty Quotes
“I am the 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. The superior man ... stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.”
Man Quotes
“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.”
Providence Quotes
“If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.”
Religion / beliefs Quotes
“Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.”
Religion / beliefs Quotes
“Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.”
Religion / beliefs Quotes
“If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the new, he would be insane.”
Religion / beliefs Quotes
“Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.”
Theology Quotes
“The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.”
Worth Quotes