Ambrose Bierce Quotes about Ignorance

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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.

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

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

Ambrose Bierce

Ignorance, Knowledge, Small Parts

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

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