The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

  • -- René Descartes 任_笛卡尔

第一条箴言是,在我毫不怀疑地知道一件事是真实的之前,永远不要相信它。

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You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.

你有一只表,它是头脑的发明,虽然它是为一个单一的运动而设计的,也是为一个更伟大的思想而设计的,它有各种各样的弹簧,可以做各种各样的运动。

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

最难的是想法。想法来自某个地方,但就我们所知,它们来自任何地方。

The best way to escape from the past is not to avoid or forget it, but to accept and forgive it.

逃避过去的最好方法不是逃避或忘记它,而是接受和原谅它。

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

做一个牧师,以及所有富有同情心和善良的品质,应该是一回事。

Sometimes people don't notice the things we do for them until we stop doing them.

有时候人们不会注意到我们为他们做的事情,直到我们停止做。

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

没有人在乎你知道多少,直到他们知道你有多在乎。

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

避免冒犯意味着我们不平等地接受彼此。

Every single day, I write something new and record it.

每一天,我都写一些新的东西并记录下来。