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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
没有人喜欢自己的才智或诚信受到质疑，尤其是当他自己对此有怀疑时。
— Henry Brooks Adams 亨利·亚当斯
同一主题，不同的表达
更多好句 ↗Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare.
循规蹈矩的人或能按吩咐办事的人并不难找;但是，能够思考、计划并告诉那些循规蹈矩的男人该做什么的男人是非常罕见的。
William Graham Sumner
美国的索姆奈
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
诚实的差异往往是进步的健康标志。
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
甘地
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
朋友们，如果我们对自己诚实，我们就会对彼此诚实。
George MacDonald
乔治·麦克唐纳
A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always believed, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
谈到自己，一个人总会失去一些东西。人们总是相信他说的对自己不利的话，但当他自我表扬时，却引起了人们的不信任。
Michel de Montaigne
蒙塔尼米歇尔
For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
对我来说，写作是一种集中的思维方式。
Don DeLillo
唐·德里罗
Lying to other people isn’t hard. It’s lying to yourself that’s the trouble.
对别人说谎并不难。对自己说谎才是问题所在。
Jonathan Culver
乔纳森·卡尔弗