Thinking Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

— 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

An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty…

— 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

I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Who can estimate the misery that has been caused by this infamous doctrine of eternal punishment? Think of the lives it has…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I do not believe that the tendency is to make men and women brave and glorious when you tell them that there…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I love to think of the whole universe together as one eternal fact. I love to think that everything is alive; that…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence…

— Robert Green Ingersoll