Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.

Truth cannot be defeated.

Nature admits no lie.

When truth and error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.

As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

The truth does not need to be defended.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

Character is the starting point from which we go on. When I say a man has character, I mean that when you go to that man and say, 'What are the facts in this case?' he will tell you the truth, justly, truly, and wisely as he knows, with the minimum of exhibitionism and the maximum of devotion to the common cause.

Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.

Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

You can't have justice unless you have truth.

Nothing is higher than the love of truth.