最通俗易懂的书籍往往最优秀。因为无论什么作者如果他用自己的语言都表述得晦涩而艰难,可以断定其思考亦不会清晰。 --切斯特菲尔德
It is with books as with men──a very small number play a great part; the rest are lost in the multitude. --Voltaire
书和人有相通之处──极少数举足轻重,其它则淹没在芸芸众生之中。 --伏尔泰
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. --Katherine Mansfield
当你和一个人住在一起,共享相同的书籍,一切快乐将会加倍。 --凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德
A book is part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there-that of the pulse, the heart beat. --Henry Miller
书构成生命的一部分,是生命的表现,正如一颗树,一匹马,一颗星。无论是小说、戏剧还是日记,它遵循自己的节奏和规律。在书里总有着深沉、隐秘的生命节奏──那是脉搏的跳动,心脏的起伏。 --亨利·米勒
Promise is most given when the least is said. --George Chapman
最深的承诺是用最少的言语作出的。 --乔治·查普曼 *教育
Who neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. --Euripides
少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲。 --欧里庇德斯
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. --Plato
强灌的知识记不牢。 --柏拉图
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
--Alfred North Whitehead
在儿童教育的初始阶段,应让他体味到发现的快乐。 --阿尔弗雷德·诺斯·怀特海 Nothing can come of nothing. --Shakespeare 无中不能生有。 --莎士比亚
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. --Elbert Hubbard
失败与成功的界线如此微妙,我们跨过它时极少察觉,以至我们往往意识不到自己就处在这条线上。 --艾尔伯特·哈伯德
When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are
ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
--Katherine Mansfield
当我们不把失败当回事,这就意味着我们不再畏惧它,学会自嘲是至关重要的一步。
--凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
--Leo Tolstoy
幸福的家庭几近一致;不幸的家庭各有不幸。 --列夫·托尔斯泰
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. --Einstein
自由无拘、努力奋斗的人创造一切真正伟大而激动人心的事件。 --爱因斯坦 *科学
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. --Charles Sanders Pierce
对于科学,有比才智更加重要的,那就是真诚希望发现真理而不管它是何种真理。
--查尔斯·桑德斯·皮尔斯
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me. --Montaigne
不能驾驭外界,我就驾驭自己,如果外界不适应我,那么我就去适应它们。 --蒙田
He is man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself. --Goethe
一个人如果从不满意自己,那么别人要讨他欢喜也是枉然。 --歌德
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. --Washington Irving
有些人仿佛自己创造自己,在逆境中崛起,在无数阻碍中孤独然而却是不可抗拒地开辟自己的道路。 --华盛顿·欧文
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. --Napoleon I
如果想把事情做好,那就亲自动手。 --拿破仑一世
\remove the darkness.\--Tagore
星星说:/“让我点燃我的明灯吧,/永远不要去想它/是否能帮助驱走黑暗。” --泰戈尔
But I know life is simple, however complex the organism may be; and everything goes to pieces when the living truth of the central simplicity is lost. --Tagore
我知道,尽管机体非常复杂,生命依然简单质朴,当失去了最基本的简朴时,一切都将破碎。 --泰戈尔
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
--Plato
风格之美、和谐、优雅和优美的节奏全在于简单。 --柏拉图
Calumnies are answered best with silence. --Ben Jonson
沉默是对诽谤的最有力回击。 --本·琼森
It is not by meticulous care in avoiding all contaminations that we can keep our spirit clean and give it grace, but by urging it to give vigorous expression to its inner life in the very midst of all the dust and heat. --Tagore
要保持精神纯洁,给精神增添光彩,不是靠小心避免污染,而是鼓励它在尘土和狂热中,顽强地表达内心世界。 --泰戈尔
I think, therefore I am. --Descartes
我思,故我在。 --笛卡儿
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. --John Locke
那些不期而至,仿佛从天而降的思想,通常是我们所有思想中最具有价值的部分。 --约翰·洛克 *思想
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. --Ezra Pound
重要的不是思想,而是思想的深度。 --伊兹拉·庞德
The thinker dies; but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal. --Walter Lippmann
思想家会离开人世,但它的思想将永不消亡,人不能永生,思想却可以永存。
--沃尔特·里普曼
It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
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