Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Running, Sweet, Memories

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1912). “Some Mistakes of Moses”, p.245, Library of Alexandria

• Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Running, Past, Rocks

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.90, Library of Alexandria

• I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes
  of snakes that run in frightful coils watching for their prey. I believe
  it was born with the yelping, howling, growling and snarling of wild beasts...
  I despise it, I defy it, and I hate it.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Running, Hate, Believe

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1906). “Famous Speeches, Complete ...”

• Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Running, Long, Abuse

• Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why investigate when you know? Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bullying the enlightened Present. The ignorant are not satisfied with what can be demonstrated. Science is too slow for them, and so they invent creeds. They demand completeness. A sublime segment, a grand fragment, are of no value to them. They demand the complete circle... the entire structure.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Running, Bullying, Past

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.90, Library of Alexandria

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