Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes about Lying

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A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Lying, Miracle, Facts

Robert Green Ingersoll (1883). “Popular edition of col. Ingersoll's lectures. (Freethought publ. co.'s ed.).”

The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men; that he rewarded the virtuous and punished the wicked, is gradually fading from the mind. We know that some of the worst men have what the world calls success. We know that some of the best men lie upon the straw of failure. We know that honesty goes hungry, while larceny sits at the banquet. We know that the vicious have every physical comfort, while the virtuous are often clad in rags.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Children, Honesty, Lying

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Lying, World, Truth Is

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”

He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes have been made - one by himself, and the other, by the people.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Mistake, Lying, Two

Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. While I have life, as long as I draw breath, I shall deny with all my strength, and hate with every drop of my blood, this infinite lie.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Lying, Hate, Blood

Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Children, Father, Lying

Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “Discussions”

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope, Liars, Lying

Speech, 1892.

When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it is not the best way; that you have tried it. Tell him as the man did in Maine when his boy left home: "John, honesty is the best policy; I have tried both."

Robert Green Ingersoll

Children, Honesty, Lying

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.210, Library of Alexandria

Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Lying, Hypocrite, Dust

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.806, Library of Alexandria