Truth Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.

— 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

— 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by…

— 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

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

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

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

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

The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity

— 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

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

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