Ambrose Bierce Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: June 24, 1842 - 1914
Birthday: June 24
Death: 1914
Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.
source: Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.184, ReadHowYouWant.com
topic: Crazy, Odds, Mad, Insanity And Sanity, Madness And Sanity
