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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes about Ignorance

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If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human

If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Ambition, Ignorance, Civilization

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance, Miracle, Religion

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1070, Library of Alexandria

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Atheist, Ignorance, Religion

Robert Green Ingersoll (1882). “Wit, Wisdom, Eloquence, and Great Speeches of Col. R. G. Ingersoll: Including Eloquent Extracts, Witty, Wise, Pungent, Truthful Sayings and Full Reports of the Great Speeches of this Celebrated Man, Together with the Funeral Oration at His Brother's Grave”

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance, Religion, Atheism

Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). “The Gods, and Other Lectures”, p.113

The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Religious, Pain, Ignorance

Robert Green Ingersoll (1990). “On The Gods and Other Essays”

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Bible, Inspiration, Ignorance

Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance, Simple, Understood

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.36, Library of Alexandria

But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance, Men, Atheism

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1080, Library of Alexandria

The agnostic does not simply say, "l do not know." He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you do not know. He insists that you are trading on the ignorance of others, and on the fear of others. He is not satisfied with saying that you do not know, -- he demonstrates that you do not know, and he drives you from the field of fact -- he drives you from the realm of reason -- he drives you from the light, into the darkness of conjecture -- into the world of dreams and shadows, and he compels you to say, at last, that your faith has no foundation in fact.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Dream, Ignorance, Light

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance, Men, Morality

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1987, Library of Alexandria

All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe, and lovingly built the dungeons of the Inquisition. All laws defining and punishing blasphemy - making it a crime to give your honest ideas about the Bible, or to laugh at the ignorance of the ancient Jews, or to enjoy yourself on the Sabbath, or to give your opinion of Jehovah, were passed by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance, Men, Law

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.312, Library of Alexandria

Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!

Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance, Eden, Giving

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

Today the intelligence of the world denies the miraculous. Ignorance is the soil of the supernatural. The foundation of Christianity has crumbled, has disappeared, and the entire fabric must fall. The natural is true. The miraculous is false.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Fall, Ignorance, Foundation

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4160, Library of Alexandria

Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)

Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance, Slavery, Form

Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men — and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort — as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance, Mean, Men

There is no slavery but ignorance.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance, Slavery

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.185, Library of Alexandria

Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of laws for their government ... the real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pretended deity, but the interpreter of nature.

Robert Green Ingersoll

God, Real, Ignorance

Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). “An Oration on the Gods”, p.31

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