Ambrose Bierce on Knowledge
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Ambrose Bierce, catalogued under knowledge, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Ambrose Bierce, entry #56569: "Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."
Attributed to Ambrose Bierce, entry #4986: "Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."
7 Quotes by Ambrose Bierce on Knowledge
"Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."
"Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."
"Revelation, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing."
"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
"Study Herod, madame, study Herod."
"Electricity, n. The cause of all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. It is the same thing as lightning, and its famous attempt to strike Dr. Franklin is one of the most picturesque incidents in that great and good man's career."
"Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane."