True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

  • -- James Russell Lowell 洛厄尔

真正的学问不在于知道事物的存在,而在于知道它们的意义;这不是记忆,而是判断。

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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

要正确地判断一个人或一件事,在说出他的缺点之前先看看他的优点是有用的,不,是必不可少的。

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

最后,人不应该问他生命的意义是什么,而是他必须认识到是他被问。

Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values.

对他人的分析实际上是我们自己需求和价值观的表达。

Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no one can live.

没有目标,没有努力去实现它,没有人能活下去。