Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899

Topics

NatureManWorldWillNeverHim

The son of a Fife mining town sledder of coal-bings, bottle-forager, and picture-house troglodyte, I was decidedly urban and knew little about native fauna, other than the handful of birds I saw on trips to the beach or Sunday walks.

John Burnside

SonBeachBirdsSundayLittleUrban

I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage.

Jermaine Dupri

CuteDanceTalentPeopleThoughtGo

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

Jeremy Bentham

TimeDayHellEarthLivingNever

It's hard to tell if I've had writer's block because it seems to me that it's when nothing comes, but, you know, every day you stare at that computer screen, and I think, 'It's never going to happen today. How can I write three pages?' And the hours pass, and they haven't shown up, and then at the very end it always happens, so it's willpower.

Andrew Sean Greer

TodayDayMeThinkEndYou

This is about black people selling out other black people.

John Mellencamp

PeopleBlackSellingOutAbout

Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.

Andy Grammer

HappinessKnowledgeYourselfWorld

The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.

Martin Parr

RealityPlaceTourismMythology

I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing.

Mary Kom

FamilyBoxingTellStartedAthletics

I'm the mother of a Marine veteran.

Lois Frankel

MotherVeteranMarine

Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.

Joshua Foer

LifeMemoriesTimeExperienceFacts

No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.

Josh Lucas

FatherWellDefinitelyChristopher

As I get older, I plan less, and I strategize less about my career and about things because you realize things happen as they're supposed to happen and the way they're supposed to happen.

Jonathan Jackson

PlanYouCareerThings HappenWay

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