Ambrose Bierce
  • Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

  • Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

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

  • Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

  • Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.