Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Truth

• An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Truth, Philosophy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.226, 谷月社

• EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Honesty, Women

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.72, University of Georgia Press

• RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Truth, Light

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.192, University of Georgia Press

• 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 upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Truth, Book

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.200, University of Georgia Press

• ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Truth, Faults

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.11, University of Georgia Press

• REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Way, Tempest

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.197, University of Georgia Press

• PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Sea, Departed

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

• OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Stress, Splendor

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.173, University of Georgia Press

• LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Liars

• Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Truth, Appearance

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.825, Library of America

• STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Stories, Narrative

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.217, University of Georgia Press

• Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Common Sense, Utterance

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.90, University of Georgia Press

• Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Deceptive, Presumption

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.39, Sheba Blake Publishing

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