Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Ignorance

• Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Daughter, Religious, Nature

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.196, University of Georgia Press

• Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Small Parts

• Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Book, Ignorance, Knowledge

• Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Learning, Ignorance, Race

• POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Philosophy, Real, Ignorance

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.167, 谷月社

• Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Education, Ignorance, Kind

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.148, University of Georgia Press

• As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  School, Ignorance, Mean

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

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