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 Quotes, Education Quotes

I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally...

I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally...

A good deed is the best prayer

A good deed is the best prayer

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you...

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you...

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment...

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment...

The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever...

The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever...

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

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...

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 will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me....

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me....

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...

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

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

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

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

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious...

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious...

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.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality...

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality...

The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who...

The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who...

A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity

A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very...

What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very...

Pride will spit in pride's face.

Pride will spit in pride's face.