Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green "Bob" Ingersollwas an American lawyer, a Civil War veteran, political leader, and orator of the United States during the Golden Age of Free Thought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth11 August 1833
CountryUnited States of America
prayer air religion
All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.
prayer spring thinking
It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.
prayer children intelligent
Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.
prayer fall law
Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.
prayer pain passion
To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon labor in place of prayer. Most misery is produced by ignorance. Passions sow the seeds of pain.
prayer deeds good-deeds
A good deed is the best prayer.
prayer eye men
The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.
christian prayer savages
The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit, and the prayers of both are equally useful.
prayer reading winter
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and clothing will. To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world.
prayer labor-day answers
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
prayer noble answers
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.
belong filled four nor religion thousand wherever
You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.
change men physically
You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually.
dreary elevates happiness loves shop whether whoever works
Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.