Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
Essayist
Lawyer
Lecturer
Orator
Philosopher
Politician
Writer
Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
Conviction
Choice
Choices
Belief
Matter
More quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will have no fear of death. About the grave, there will be no terrors, and his life will end as serenely as the sun rises.
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 a pioneer it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .
Robert Green Ingersoll
If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.
Robert Green Ingersoll
A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting. To live on the labor of others, either by force which enslaves, or by cunning which robs, or by borrowing or begging, is wholly dishonorable. Every man should be taught some useful art.
Robert Green Ingersoll
We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.
Robert Green Ingersoll
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it.
Robert Green Ingersoll
As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.
Robert Green Ingersoll
We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood that there is nothing mysterious about them that they are simply transparent falsehoods.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Love your friends and be just to your enemies.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.
Robert Green Ingersoll
