More quotes by Ambrose Bierce

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."
"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."
"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."