More - Robert Ingersoll Quotes

It is better to deserve without receiving, than to receive without deserving

Robert Ingersoll

 

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

Robert Ingersoll

 Compromise

In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings

Robert Ingersoll

 

If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty,

Robert Ingersoll

 

Happiness is not a reward / it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment / it is a result.

Robert Ingersoll

 Happiness

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

Robert Ingersoll

 Experience Science And Scientists

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb

Robert Ingersoll

 Custom

God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race

Robert Ingersoll

 God

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Robert Ingersoll

 American Lawyer Facts

I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity

Robert Ingersoll

 Hope