Affected Quote by Ambrose Bierce Download Open image “Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.” — Ambrose Bierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affected Freedom Independence Intellectual Intelligence Mad
Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp. — Ed Wood Copy Share Image
'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else. — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Mad? Is one who has solved the secret of life to be considered mad? — Edward T. Lowe, Jr Copy Share Image
In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of God, everyone… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are. — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life, except on… — Guy de Maupassant 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
To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls… — Dabney Coleman Copy Share Image
First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Then, the other thing that affected my interest in choices growing up was the fact that I was going blind and that meant that… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I don't think Wayne Rooney would be affected if you booed him, that's just how he is, but others go under. They really suffer… — Frank Lampard Copy Share Image
I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is… — David Hare Copy Share Image
