It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

Topics: Common Sense Quotes, Education Quotes

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

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

Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have...

Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have...

Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of...

Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of...

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of...

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of...

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to...

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to...

A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility

A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility

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

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

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either...

The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either...

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor...

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor...

If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered...

If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered...

I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who...

I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who...

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by...

Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by...

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about...

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about...

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.