Ignorance Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

16 Ignorance quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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Ingersoll’s eloquent speeches championed rational thought over superstition. In this selection of sixteen, his confident prose challenges the comfortable lies we tell ourselves.

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Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

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There is no slavery but ignorance.

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Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)

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If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

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Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

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Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

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The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

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A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation...

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Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.

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To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead…

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Today the intelligence of the world denies the miraculous. Ignorance is the soil of the supernatural. The foundation of Christianity has crumbled,…

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But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and…

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Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force,…

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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of…

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All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the…

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Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons,…

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

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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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