Knows Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I would have all the professors in colleges, all the teachers in schools of every kind, including those in Sunday schools, agree…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

We all know that men in moderate circumstances can have just as comfortable houses as the richest, just as comfortable clothing, just…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know that there would be an American Air-bottling…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is…

— Robert Green Ingersoll