Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift. — Robert Green Ingersoll Forgetfulness Copy Share Image
Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . . — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still. — Robert Green Ingersoll Children Copy Share Image
By nature all people are alike, but by education become different — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels. — Robert Green Ingersoll Growth Copy Share Image
Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous. — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. — Robert Green Ingersoll Anger Copy Share Image
He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes. — 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 Atheism Copy Share Image
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 Affair Copy Share Image
Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered. — Robert Green Ingersoll Art Copy Share Image
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bible Copy Share Image
In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Alive Copy Share Image
And yet this same Deity says to me, resist not evil; pray for those that despitefully use you; love your enemies, but… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads,… — 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 Demonstration Copy Share Image
Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Freedom Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You cannot show real respect to your parents by perpetuating their errors… Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Life Copy Share Image
The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are… — Robert Green Ingersoll Affection Copy Share Image
There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Absurd Copy Share Image
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 Age Copy Share Image
I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. — Robert Green Ingersoll Facts Copy Share Image
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature. — Robert Green Ingersoll Funny Copy Share Image
The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring. — Robert Green Ingersoll Acceptance Copy Share Image
You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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