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History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
历史是对过去对我们意义的诠释。
— Johan Huizinga 约翰·赫伊津哈
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更多好句 ↗We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.
我们只承认一个动机，那就是跟随我们所知道的真理，无论真理将我们带到何处;但在我们的内心深处，我们确信使我们自由的真理，最终也会使我们快乐。
Mortimer J. Adler
莫蒂默·杰尔姆·阿德勒
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
如果我们都假定公认的真理是真的，那么进步的希望就很小。
Orville Wright
莱特
For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.
因为学术——如果要成为学术的话——除了要求自由，还要求真理凌驾于包括私利在内的所有宗派利益之上。
John Charles Polanyi
约翰·查尔斯·波拉尼
A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.
科学家与同事讨论的目的不是说服，而是澄清。
Leo Szilard
西拉德
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
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
在一代人看来荒谬到极点的东西，往往在下一代却变成了智慧到极点的东西。
John Stuart Mill
约翰·斯图尔特·密尔