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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Ambrose Bierce quotes about thinking

American Journalist, Writer June 24, 1842 – January 11, 1914

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Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Think twice before you speak to a friend in need"
Think twice before you speak to a friend in need Ambrose Bierce
Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore-Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in... Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "It looked like diamonds, rubies, emeralds; he could think of..."
It looked like diamonds, rubies, emeralds; he could think of nothing beautiful which it did not resemble. Ambrose Bierce
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country..."
Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another. Ambrose Bierce
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made. Ambrose Bierce
Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think."
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while..."
Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs."
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. Ambrose Bierce

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