Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.
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
Investigate
Creed
Creeds
Repeat
Repeats
Think
Thinking
Grander
More quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the temple that the priest could not use, and it always happened that god wanted what his agents liked.
Robert Green Ingersoll
A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Love your friends and be just to your enemies.
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
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
Robert Green Ingersoll
My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
Robert Green Ingersoll
So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.
Robert Green Ingersoll
As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.
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
You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.
Robert Green Ingersoll
All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
Robert Green Ingersoll
I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
Robert Green Ingersoll
One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.
Robert Green Ingersoll
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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
Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.
Robert Green Ingersoll
If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Ignorance worships mystery reason explains it the one grovels, the other soars.
Robert Green Ingersoll
All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes the subject or servant of this superstition must give up all idea of indivuality or hope of intellectual growth or progress.
Robert Green Ingersoll
