Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

He who's never loved cannot be good.

He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good

A heart set on love will do no wrong.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

As long as I'm a good person and I do things from the heart, that's all that matters.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

No man-made law will ever eliminate cruelty and evil from every human heart.

I boil down people to 'good heart' or 'bad heart' - meaning they're basically good or basically not.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.

Nothing is rarer than real goodness.

If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.

Kindness is virtue itself.

A good thing can't be cruel.

You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

I'm a good mother. I'm a good person.

An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others.