Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Happiness, Depression

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1681, Library of Alexandria

• The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wisdom, Freedom, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.186, Library of Alexandria

• Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

• It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Education, Wisdom, School

• In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Nature

  'Some Reasons Why' (1881) pt. 8 'The New Testament' in 'The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll' (1915) vol. 2, p. 315

• Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title page and Preface to a most learned volume. So they are easily imposed upon by forms, strange garments, and solemn ceremonies. And when the teaching of parents, the customs of neighbors, and the general tongue approve and justify a belief or creed, no matter how absurd, it is hard even for the strongest to hold the citadel of his soul. In each country, in defence of each religion, the same arguments would be urged.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Country, Wisdom, Mistake

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.773, Library of Alexandria

• The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf - a philosopher or servant, - but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wisdom, Kings, Truth

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”

• Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wisdom, Real, Heart

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2169, Library of Alexandria

• The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Faith, Wisdom, Spring

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4656, Library of Alexandria

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