Author: Robert Green Ingersoll

Quotes

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.

Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

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