Nature Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

In my judgment, the Deists were all successfully answered. The god of nature is certainly as bad as the God of the…

— 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

I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea…

— Robert Green Ingersoll