Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

—Ambrose Bierce

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About Ambrose Bierce

Portrait of Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – c. 1914) was an American author, journalist, and poet. A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked...

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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.

—Ambrose Bierce

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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)

—Ambrose Bierce

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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

—Ambrose Bierce

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Doubt is the father of invention.

—Ambrose Bierce

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

—Ambrose Bierce

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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

—Thomas A. Edison

We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

—E. F. Schumacher

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The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 1014 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

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Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

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