Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Wisdom

• Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Cute, Sad

• Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Education, Wise, Wisdom

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 86

• The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Clever, Lying

• ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Latin, America

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2504, Delphi Classics

• 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

• OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Disappointment, Light

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.218, ReadHowYouWant.com

• MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Political, Crowds

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz (2000). “The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires”, p.223, Univ. of Tennessee Press

• EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Sometimes, Prose

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.71, ReadHowYouWant.com

• APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Aphorism

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.12, 谷月社

• ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Teeth, Weak

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.12, University of Georgia Press

• Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Experience, Recognise You

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