Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Work, India, Genius

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.725, Library of Alexandria

• There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

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  Differences, Genius, Stones

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2013). “Shakespeare: A Lecture”, p.31, Library of Alexandria

• The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Independence, Liberty, Genius

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.83, Library of Alexandria

• Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Clinton P. Farrell (1900). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Tributes and miscellany”

• The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all times, it has opposed the liberty of thought and expression. It has been the sworn enemy of investigation and intellectual development. It has denied the existence of facts, the tendency of which was to undermine its power. It has always been carrying fagots to the feet of Philosophy. It has erected the gallows for Genius. It has built the dungeon for Thinkers.

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  Religious, Philosophy, Race

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4052, Library of Alexandria

• It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Genius, Debt

  "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Lectures".

• For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith. The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the known, and to happiness here in this world. The many have appealed to prejudice, to fear, to miracle, to slavery, to the unknown, and to misery hereafter. The few have said "Think" The many have said "Believe!"

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Faith, Religious, War

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.51, Library of Alexandria

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