Ambrose Bierce Quotes about Truth

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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Ambrose Bierce

Truth, Common Sense, Utterance

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.90, University of Georgia Press

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

Ambrose Bierce

Truth, Way, Tempest

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.197, University of Georgia Press

EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

Ambrose Bierce

Truth, Honesty, Women

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.72, University of Georgia Press

LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.

Ambrose Bierce

Truth, Liars

An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

Ambrose Bierce

Time, Truth, Philosophy

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.226, 谷月社

RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.

Ambrose Bierce

Life, Truth, Light

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.192, University of Georgia Press

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

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.

Ambrose Bierce

Truth, Sea, Departed

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

Ambrose Bierce

Truth, Stress, Splendor

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.173, University of Georgia Press

Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

Ambrose Bierce

Funny, Truth, Appearance

Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.825, Library of America

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

Ambrose Bierce

Truth, Deceptive, Presumption

Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.39, Sheba Blake Publishing