Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
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
Strange
Loved
Least
True
Men
Atheism
More quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.
Robert Green Ingersoll
It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.
Robert Green Ingersoll
For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.
Robert Green Ingersoll
An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.
Robert Green Ingersoll
There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
Robert Green Ingersoll
As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.
Robert Green Ingersoll
One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
Robert Green Ingersoll
It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Robert Green Ingersoll
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded and just to the extent that science has been appealed to in matters of religion, religion has advanced - so that now the object of intelligent religionists is to adopt a creed that will bear the test and criticism of science.
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
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or aristocratic not to labor, the world will be filled with idleness and crime, and with every possible moral deformity.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
Robert Green Ingersoll
I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes of snakes that run in frightful coils watching for their prey. I believe it was born with the yelping, howling, growling and snarling of wild beasts... I despise it, I defy it, and I hate it.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.
Robert Green Ingersoll
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
Robert Green Ingersoll
