All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place and power are not necessary to success; that the desire to acquire great wealth is a kind of insanity. They should be taught that it is a waste of energy, a waste of thought, a waste of life, to acquire what you do not need and what you do not really use for the benefit of yourself or others.


The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Lectures (ed. 1900)

Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place and power are not necessary to...

All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place and power are not necessary to...

All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place and power are not necessary to...

All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place and power are not necessary to...