Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer.

People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers.

At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?

This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Knowledge consists in understanding the evidence that establishes the fact, not in the belief that it is a fact.

That’s a very good question but I’m afraid that I don’t have a very good answer.

Argument is conclusive … but … it does not remove doubt.

Someone who's asking questions of the clergy, that he doesn't have the answers to, I think that's a universal predicament.

I don't like accepting things at face value.

It is clear that I am a person who believes fundamentally in facts, evidence, data, and science, which supports decision-making and allows us to function as a society based on knowledge.

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!

Zoey: Wait! Don't go yet. I have so many questions. Nyx: Life will reveal to you the choices you must make to answer them.

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken

When you can answer questions about what you think and when you can explain why you think what you think, that's power, it's comforting power.

After all the evidence is in--after you've run all the facts by everything you know--and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith.

Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

To know truly is to know by causes.

There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

Time will explain.

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt