Ambrose Bierce
“POSITIVE, adj. Mistaken at the top of one’s voice.”
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary (1906)
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Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary (1906)
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“POSITIVE, adj. Mistaken at the top of one’s voice.”
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Bierce reserved special contempt for false certainty. Being “positive,” he decided, isn’t confidence — it’s being wrong loudly. One sentence that sketches an entire personality type.
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