一些值得深思的话

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
不成熟的人希望为了理想壮烈牺牲，成熟的人则为其谦卑的活着。

The Catcher in the Rye
It's wit that makes a man brave.
智能使人勇敢。

The film "Braveheart" (1995)
『 There are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.』
世上没有完美的人，只有完美的动机！

Robin Hood : Prince of Thieves；侠盗王子罗宾汉
We are prisoners of ideas.
我们都是「观念」的囚犯。

Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think; therefore I am.
我思故我在。

Rene Descartes
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
大自然只用最长的丝线来编织她的花纹，所以从一丝一线之中，都能看出她的整个面貌。
Richard Feynman 美国物理学家

God is just a concept from which we measure our pain.
神只是一种概念，用来衡量我们所受的痛苦。

John Lennon
The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
结束战争最快的方法就是战败。

George Orwell
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
思考，就是和自己的灵魂对话。

Plato (427?-347?BC)
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
不要怕你的意见和别人不同，因为所有现在普遍被接受的意见在最初都曾经是怪异的。
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), 英国数学家与哲学家

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.
很多人宁愿死也不肯思考，事实上，他们的确到死也没思考过。
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), 英国数学家与哲学家

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
经典就是，大家都希望自己曾经读过，然而却没人想读的东西。
Mark Twain (1835-1910), 美国作家

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
真相往往比幻想还要不可思议。
Mark Twain (1835-1910), 美国作家

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
生命是一种经由性接触而散播的疾病。
无名氏

Victory is a political fiction.
胜利是一种政治神话。
无名氏

The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
天才和愚蠢的差别在于，天才是有极限的。
无名氏

He that knows nothing, doubts nothing.
什么都不知道的人，对任何事都不怀疑。
无名氏

Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
人工智能的愚蠢，和自然界的愚蠢完全没得比。
无名氏

Too many people are ready to carry the stool when the piano needs to be moved.
当我们需要移动钢琴时，总是有太多人准备好要拿板凳。
无名氏

Only fools are quoted.
只有傻瓜的话才被引用。
不知名的傻瓜

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.
愚昧的人和没有受教育的人很少用到自由。
无名氏

In God We Trust --- All others must pay cash.
我们信仰上帝，其它人都得付现。
无名氏

Common sense is the most uncommon thing in the world.
常识是世界上最不平常的事。
无名氏

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
科技由两种人掌控，一种人了解他们不管理的东西，另一种人管理他们不了解的东西。
无名氏

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
智者从井里看到的，比傻瓜从山顶看的还多。
无名氏

Revolutionaries become conservatives after the revolution.
革命分子在革命后就会变成保守党。
无名氏

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least";... Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe-"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), 美国作家
Men have become the tools of their tools.
人们被自己创造的工具所奴役。
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), 美国作家

Still we live meanly, like ants... Our life is fritted away by detail... Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand... simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.
生命如蚂蚁一般卑微，在琐事之中消磨殆尽...让我们拋开琐碎的事，生活尽量简单，人生的目标要崇高。
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), 美国作家

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.
在自由社会中，如果法律是不义的，每个人都有责任打破它。
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), 美国作家

He hadn't time to pen a note.
He hadn't time to cast a vote.
He hadn't time to sing a song.
He hadn't time to right a wrong.
He hadn't time to love or give.
He hadn't time to really live.
From now on he'll have time on end
He died today, my 'busy' friend.
无名氏

History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.
历史就是一幅人类的犯罪与不幸的图像。
L'Ingenu. Chap. x. (1767.) by Voltaire (1694-1778)

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
如果神不存在，我们就得创造祂。
Voltaire (1694-1778)

Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.
Jon Bentley

For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.
对老百姓来说，所有的新闻都不是好消息，对媒体来说，好消息都不算是新闻。
Gloria Borger

Always tell the truth, not only because it is the decent thing to do, but because it gives you such an advantage over the man who is trying to remember his lies!
Sam Brookes

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
教育使一个人容易被领导，但是难以驱使，容易管理，但是难以奴役。
Lord Brougham

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
我们的炸弹比一般的高中生还聪明，至少它们能找到科威特。
A. Whitney Brown - American editor, publisher

Geniuses do not think more than other people. They think less.
天才没有想得比较多，他们想得比一般人更少。
Len Cool

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
James Dean

Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
生命只是一个晃动的影子，是一个可怜的演员在舞台上使劲卖力演出，然后悄然下台，再也听不见他的声音。生命是白痴说故事，讲得慷慨激昂，却是毫无意义。
Macbeth 5:5 by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedence, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
小男孩可以和狗学的事情很多；服从、忠诚、以及在趴下前转三圈的重要性。
Robert Benchley

The worst men often give the best advice.
最糟糕的人通常会提出最好的建议。
P. J. Bailey

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
计算机所带来的危险不在于有一天它们会变得和人一样聪明，而在于我们渐渐变得和它们一样笨。
Bernard Avishai

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
我们借着获取来讨生活，借着付出来过生活。
Arthur Ashe 美国网球名将
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
绝对的权力使人绝对的腐化。
Lord Acton (1834-1902), 英国历史学家
Letter, 5 April 1887

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
绝对的信仰，就如同绝对的权利一样使人腐化。
Eric Hoffer (1902-83), 美国哲学家与码头工人

All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.
所有动物生而平等，但是有些动物比其它动物更平等。
动物农庄，George Orwell着
Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen

Madness is rare in individuals--but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
疯狂在个人身上是很少见的，在团体中却是常态。
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
「群众的意见」，是有史以来最大的谎言。
Thomas Carlyle

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.
好人通常睡得比较安稳，然而坏人却更能享受醒着的时光。
Woody Allen, 美国导演、演员、作家

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
一个正确陈述的反面是一个错误的陈述，然而一个真理的反面，也许是一个另一个真理。
Neils Bohr

Silentium, stultorum virtus: Silence is the
virtue of fools.
沉默是愚者的美德。
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), ("The Antitheta of Things" no. 30 {Gilbert Watts, 1640})

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
只有两种东西是无限大的，宇宙和人的愚昧。对于前者，我不是很确定。
Albert Einstein

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
人生而无知，但是并不愚蠢，是教育使人愚蠢。
Bertrand Russell

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
为了创造学校黑板，神创造了白痴做为练习。
Mark Twain

Common sense is the collection of prejudices eighteen.
常识就是成见的集合。
Albert Einstein

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits but not when it misses.
迷信的根源，在于人们只注意到有些事的偶然发生，却忽略了有些事从未发生。
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
电视机是一种神奇的装置，可以让一群没事干的人，看着一群干不了什么事的人。
Fred Allen

Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.
有些人觉得杯子一半满，有些人觉得杯子一半空，我觉得杯子太大了。
George Carlin

The only completely consistent people are the dead.
只有死人永远不变。
Aldous Huxley

Only the educated are free.
只有受教育的人是自由的。
Epictetus

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
如果我们知道自己在做什么，那还叫研究吗？
Albert Einstein

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke
Most of us spend the first 6 days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
Fred Allen