Bierce, Ambrose (Ambrose Bierce)

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.


-- Ambrose Bierce

Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
-- Ambrose Bierce

Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
-- Ambrose Bierce

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
-- Ambrose Bierce

Painting is the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to critics.
-- Ambrose Bierce


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