Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.

—Ambrose Bierce

About Ambrose Bierce

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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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Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

—Ambrose Bierce

The covers of this book are too far apart.

—Ambrose Bierce

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

—Ambrose Bierce

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

—Ambrose Bierce

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

—Ambrose Bierce

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What a splendid head, yet no brain.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

—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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