"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

— Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions."

— Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge."

— Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"Mad, adj. - Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence."

— Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions."

— Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured."

— Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

— Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be."

— Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"When you doubt, abstain."

— Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"Doubt is the father of invention."

—  Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)