More From Ambrose Bierce
- "Enthusiasm – a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
- "Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."
- "Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."
More In Patience
- "I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve."― George W. Bush
- "The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don’t resent them, you are not fit to live."― Bernard de Mandeville
- "There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives."― Tom Clancy