Dumb Quote by Ambrose Bierce Download Open image “TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.” — Ambrose Bierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dumb Illiterate Truthful
A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart. — Terry Carr Copy Share Image
I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
If you're going to insult me, at least have the very basic intelligence to use correct spellings. — Mwaaba Mugala Copy Share Image
... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A true intelligent person knows how to pretend to be a fool in front of a fool who pretends to be intelligent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading,… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
He is forced to be literate about the illiterate, witty about the witless and coherent about the incoherent. — John Crosby Copy Share Image
A true intelligent person know how to pretend like a fool in front of a fool who pretend like an intelligent person! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A person can be highly educated, professionally successful, and financially illiterate” — Robert T. Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that… — Bertolt Brecht 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
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I hate the way you talk to me And the way you cut your hair I hate the way you drive my car I… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I love comedy. I love the absurdity of it. I love the kind of intelligence that's required to be dumb in comedy. — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman. — Lawrence Schiller Copy Share Image
I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people. — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
I always wanted to make big action movies as a kid, and that was my dream. In a way, 'Swingers' was the thing I… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I hate it when people come up to me on trains and ask 'Are you Soulja Boy?' If people want pictures or autographs, that's… — Soulja Boy Copy Share Image
I just don't like that you can either be ugly and smart or pretty and dumb, or ugly and nice or pretty and mean. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
