Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

  • -- Thomas Sowell 托马斯·索厄尔

注重事实的人可以纠正错误,但墨守成规的人不会纠正教条主义。

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Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

真理从事实中产生,但它们又深入到事实中,并加以补充;这些事实又无限地创造或揭示新的真理(这个词是无关紧要的)等等。与此同时,“事实”本身并不真实。他们只是。真理是信仰的功能,信仰在真理中开始和结束。

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

当人们缺少教师时,他们的倾向得不到纠正;当他们没有仪式和道德准则时,他们的无法无天是无法控制的。

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

以好奇心为主要动力的生物更喜欢积累事实,而不是偶尔停下来反思这些事实。