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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
要低估人类的智力是不可能的——从一个人自己的智力开始。
— Henry Brooks Adams 亨利·亚当斯
同一主题，不同的表达
更多好句 ↗Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
书可以告诉一个人，他最初的想法并不新鲜。
Abraham Lincoln
亚伯拉罕·林肯
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
没有一个人不同时是一位深刻的哲学家，就永远不是一位伟大的诗人。
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
柯勒律治
The mountains had their own time, and a wise man did not try to hurry them.
山有它自己的时间，智者不会催促它们。
Diana Gabaldon
加瓦尔东
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
世界上的问题不可能由怀疑论者或愤世嫉俗者来解决，他们的视野受到明显现实的限制。我们需要能梦想从未有过的东西的人。
John F. Kennedy
肯尼迪
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
有些赝品很好地再现了事实，如果不被它们所欺骗，那就是判断上的缺陷。
Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
很少有事情是由于冲动的欲望而成功的，但大多数是由于冷静和谨慎的预先考虑。
Thucydides
修昔底德