Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If abuses are destroyed, we must destroy them. If slaves are freed, we must free them. If new truths are discovered, we… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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