Genius Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

13 Genius quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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Robert Green Ingersoll’s 13 remarks on genius provide a succinct snapshot of his rationalist outlook—perfect for a quick read that still manages to spark deeper thought about intellect and originality.

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It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

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It is hard to overstate the debt that we owe to men and women of genius.

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Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity…

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In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real…

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There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

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It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not…

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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

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“Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of…

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Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or…

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Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual…

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The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all…

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For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one…

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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

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Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

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Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

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Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

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When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men…

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In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

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Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one…

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