Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.
– Ambrose Bierce
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- ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith. – Ambrose Bierce
- Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me. – Gautama Buddha
- When the vision becomes right [correct], one sees only his own faults and when the vision is wrong [incorrect], he sees others at fault. – Dada Bhagwan
- Fear has no brains it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated. – Ambrose Bierce
- acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. – Ambrose Bierce
- diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one’s country. – Ambrose Bierce
- AMNESTY, n. The state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. – Ambrose Bierce
- POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. – Ambrose Bierce
- GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism. – Ambrose Bierce
- You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. – Ambrose Bierce
- BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. – Ambrose Bierce
- History -“ An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce
- God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. – Ambrose Bierce
- Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity. – Ambrose Bierce
- Marriage, n.: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. – Ambrose Bierce
- Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. – Ambrose Bierce
- Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke. – Ambrose Bierce
- Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live! – Ambrose Bierce
- So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter’s field I shall soon have both. What wealth! – Ambrose Bierce
- Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce
- The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff. – Ambrose Bierce
- In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent – Ambrose Bierce
- A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else. – Ambrose Bierce
- Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence. – Ambrose Bierce
- Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world. – Criss Jami
- The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. – GK Chesterton
- Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time. – Arab proverb
- I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. – Edgar Allan Poe
- To even begin to embrace the magnitude of God’s vision, we must first embrace our vision as being nothing more than vision by definition. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. – Jack Welch
- Vision unknown is self-abuse. Vision known is self-abuse discovery. But vision applied is self-liberation. Application is the key – Israelmore Ayivor
- Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen. – Phil Cooke
- Every good vision is not meant to benefit or serve self, where a -˜vision’ is for self; it is not more a vision, but an ambition. – ANIKOR Daniel
- Know your vision, live your vision, share your vision. – Alin Sav
- He who has a mind has thoughts and he who has thoughts has vision! Think vision. Produce vision! – Darnaya Darice
- Awakening your spiritual self is like having a second childhood with faulty parents, broken bones and proverbial brussel sprouts. – Christopher Hawke
- Leave people to their opinions and judgments. They cannot harm you; it is their understanding that is faulty, not yours. Leon Brown – Leon Brown
- A successful man never allows his faulty of discrimination and judgement to be distributed by the rising tides of his emotions. – Gian Kumar
- We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. – Gene Roddenberry
- Love has its own eyes, and they are more efficient at the beginning and faulty at the end – Bangambiki Habyarimana