I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

  • -- Henry James 亨利詹姆斯

我要自己判断事情;我认为,错误地判断比完全不判断更光荣。

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If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.

如果博客作者想要改善我们的公共话语——帮助忙碌且通常无知的人们理解这个世界——就有必要使用某种标准来判断他们的可靠性。或许答案(严格意义上的建议)在于他们的同行。也许不是。

The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

游戏的规则是永远不要假设任何人,无论多么光荣,都能在酷刑下站起来。如果知道我在哪里的X先生因为某种原因被抓住了,我就会搬家。

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

人们以三种方式来评价事物:有用的、令人愉快的或快乐的来源、优秀的、或本质上令人钦佩的或光荣的。

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

你可以很容易地通过一个人如何对待那些对他无能为力的人来判断他的性格。