The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know. Robert Green Ingersoll More Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll More Quotes From Robert Green Ingersoll No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion. Robert Green Ingersoll sense-of-humorworkmen If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me. Robert Green Ingersoll reasonwantheaven Every library is an arsenal. Robert Green Ingersoll libraryarsenal I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it - loyalty to our duty as we know it - loyalty to the ideals of our brain and heart - is, to my mind, far greater and far nobler than loyalty to the life of any particular man or God. . . . Robert Green Ingersoll loyaltylifebelieve Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift. Robert Green Ingersoll mindmemorieslife I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it, you remember it. It is with information as it is with liberty, the only way to be dead sure of it is to give it to other people. Robert Green Ingersoll givinglifepeople No man has a right to leave his wife to fight the battle alone if he is able to help. No man has a right to desert his children if he can possibly be of use. As long as he can add to the comfort of those he loves, as long as he can . . . be of any use, it is his duty to remain. Robert Green Ingersoll fightinglifechildren No man should kill himself as long as he can be of the least use to anybody, and if you cannot find some person that you are willing to do something for, find a good dog and take care of him. You have no idea how much better you will feel. Robert Green Ingersoll dogmenlife When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice. Robert Green Ingersoll triumphevillife I don't want to hurt people's feelings if I can help it. I don't want anyone unnecessarily humiliated, but I say whatever stands between you and justice must give way; and if you have to walk over reputations — and if they become pavement you cannot help it. Robert Green Ingersoll hurtlifepeople Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest. Robert Green Ingersoll harvestcorporationshonesty Love your friends and be just to your enemies. Robert Green Ingersoll love-youenemy The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring. Robert Green Ingersoll wisdomfaithspring In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. Robert Green Ingersoll holinesserasworld Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not that man civilized whose reason sits the crowned monarch of his brain - whose passions are his servants? Robert Green Ingersoll passionrealmen The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped. Robert Green Ingersoll moneyhelping-othersbelieve Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell. Robert Green Ingersoll orthodoxyhellfire Hope is the consolation of the world. Robert Green Ingersoll consolationlifeworld I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for . . . the ones you love. It is a blessed thing to have an object in life - something to do - something to call into play your best thoughts, to develop your faculties and to make you a man. Robert Green Ingersoll blessedworkbelieve It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race. Robert Green Ingersoll raceworkworld
