Ambrose Bierce Quotes about Wisdom

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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.

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

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

Ambrose Bierce

Wisdom, Clever, Lying

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

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

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