# C explained — Poetry

> Chapter companion for Poetry by Ambrose Bierce.

## What happens

A brief aphorism contrasting the impressionability of strong versus weak minds, suggesting that a philosopher is more easily convinced of being a fool than a fool is of being a philosopher.

## Key lines

> A strong mind is more easily impressed than a weak: you shall not so readily convince a fool that you are a philosopher as a philosopher that you are a fool.

A powerful intellect is more susceptible to influence than a feeble one; it is harder to persuade a fool that you are wise than to persuade a wise person that you are foolish.

_This paradoxical observation highlights the self-awareness and humility of the strong mind versus the stubbornness of the weak._

## Links

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