“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Education
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“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Courage
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“Courage without conscience is a wild beast.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Courage
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“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Submitted by Quonation |Category: College
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“The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Worth
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“Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Science
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“I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Mediocrity
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“I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
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“Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Anger
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“The more liberty you give away the more you will have.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Liberty
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“Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Labor
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“Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Kindness
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“Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Hope
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“Happiness is not a reward — it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment — it is a result.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Happiness
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“He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Helpfulness
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“If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn’t pay Smith.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Forgiveness
