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The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
人类希望最大的敌人不是残酷的事实，而是那些不愿面对事实的聪明人。
— Max Eastman 马科斯·伊斯特曼
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更多好句 ↗The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
唯一允许人类以一种真正开放的方式彼此合作的是他们愿意让自己的信念被新的事实所改变。只有对证据和论点持开放态度，我们才能建立一个共同的世界。
Sam Harris
山姆·哈里斯
What matters is not what any individual thinks, but what is true. A teacher who does not equip his pupils with the rudimentary tools to discover this is substituting indoctrination for teaching.
重要的不是每个人怎么想，而是什么是真实的。如果一个老师不给他的学生提供发现这一点的基本工具，那么他就是在用灌输取代教学。
Richard Stanley Peters
理查德·斯坦利·彼得斯
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
没有创造力的头脑可以发现错误的答案，但只有非常有创造力的头脑才能发现错误的问题。
Antony Jay
安东尼·杰伊
Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.
言语不过是思想投下的阴影。但它们所代表的思想是真实的。
Roy H. Williams
罗伊·H·威廉姆斯
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
首先，也是最后，对天才的要求是热爱真理。
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
约翰·沃尔夫冈·冯·歌德
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
一个微小的错误思想可能会引发富有成效的探索，从而确立有价值的真理。
Isaac Asimov
艾萨克·阿西莫夫