Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Wisdom
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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.
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The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.
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The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
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The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf - a philosopher or servant, - but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
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Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title page and Preface to a most learned volume. So they are easily imposed upon by forms, strange garments, and solemn ceremonies. And when the teaching of parents, the customs of neighbors, and the general tongue approve and justify a belief or creed, no matter how absurd, it is hard even for the strongest to hold the citadel of his soul. In each country, in defence of each religion, the same arguments would be urged.
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Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.
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