Author Profile
Robert Green Ingersoll
1833 – 1899 • American • Lawyer
66
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 66 quotesThe great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others.— Robert Green Ingersoll
George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.— Robert Green Ingersoll
When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms.— Robert Green Ingersoll
The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.— Robert Green Ingersoll
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.— Robert Green Ingersoll
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.— Robert Green Ingersoll
In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell.— Robert Green Ingersoll
You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million.— Robert Green Ingersoll
The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.— Robert Green Ingersoll
I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.— Robert Green Ingersoll
You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.— Robert Green Ingersoll
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.— Robert Green Ingersoll
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.— Robert Green Ingersoll