A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably out… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say "I" and "me." "It will probably rain" - that is dogmatic. "I… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
