Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Truth

Quotes about: Truth

• All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, - never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Truth, Errors, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.774, Library of Alexandria

• Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Truth, Ambition

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.932, 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”

• It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Truth, Miracle, Scorn

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1688, Library of Alexandria

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