WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:52:13 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg discoverer – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Ingersoll, Robert Green -- Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/85139/ https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/85139/#respond Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:52:13 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=85139 Infidels are intellectual discoverers. They sail the unknown seas and find new isles and continents in the infinite realms of thought.
An Infidel is one who has found a new fact, who has an idea of his own, and who in the mental sky has seen another star.
He is an intellectual capitalist, and for that reason excites the envy and hatred of the theological pauper.


Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/85139/feed/ 0 85139 Butler, Samuel -- Further Extracts from the Note-Books of Samuel Butler, ch. 1 (1934) https://wist.info/butler-samuel/22124/ https://wist.info/butler-samuel/22124/#respond Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:28:35 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=22124 Reforms and discoveries are like offenses; they must needs come, but woe unto that man through whom they come.


Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English novelist, satirist, scholar
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