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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of ones voice. - Ambrose

To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of ones voice. – Ambrose Bierce

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Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce

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Experience
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Ambrose Bierce
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. – Ambrose Bierce

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Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life! – George Meredith

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When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation and suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities. – David Hume

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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. – Thomas Carlyle

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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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