671 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . .

I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine power. He knows there is a reason. He knows that something is too large or too small; that there is something wrong with his machine; and he goes to work and he makes it larger or smaller, here or there, until the wheel will turn.

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.