Top 175 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live.

The 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.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

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.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people.

Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.