Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy. Robert Green Ingersoll aptcalleducation Change image and share on social
There is no slavery but ignorance. Robert Green Ingersoll ignoranceslavery Change image and share on social
If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew. Robert Green Ingersoll accomplishbuildcredit Change image and share on social
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. Robert Green Ingersoll convictioncouragedeath Change image and share on social
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. Robert Green Ingersoll dishonestlaborlive Change image and share on social
I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If there is in Heaven an infinite being, he never will be satisfied with the worship of cowards and hypocrites. Robert Green Ingersoll cowardcrawlercringers share on social
They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers. Robert Green Ingersoll allowbelievecapacity Change image and share on social
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. Robert Green Ingersoll ageblessconviction Change image and share on social
Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower. Robert Green Ingersoll flowerfreeheart Change image and share on social
I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter. Robert Green Ingersoll daughterdayestimate Change image and share on social
