Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
- Topic: Common Sense, Education
- Location: Cancun, Mexico
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Robert G. Ingersoll
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. Men are no superior by reason of the accidents of race and color. The are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words
Look at the stars and not down at your own feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Common sense is the very antipodes of science.
Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature—daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it—rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.
What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?
The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
