More From Ambrose Bierce
- "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
- "Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."
- "Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."
More In Great
- "When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny."― Mo Rocca
- "There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them."― William Shakespeare
- "I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."― John Steinbeck