Psychology Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

24 Psychology quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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Robert Green Ingersoll’s wit cuts through the noise, and his 24 observations on the mind champion rational thought and personal agency. Expect a mix of humor and earnest counsel that nudges readers toward clearer, freer thinking.

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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind

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Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

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There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.

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The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.

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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed…

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Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the…

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God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

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To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind .…

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For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs.

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Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

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

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The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If…

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All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes…

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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous…

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This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God,…

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Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain…

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Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the…

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The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please…

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

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In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed…

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I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock…

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

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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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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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