For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

由于长命百岁,我经历过许多这样的事例:由于获得了更好的信息或更充分的考虑,我不得不改变自己的观点,甚至在一些重要的问题上也是如此。我曾经认为这些观点是正确的,但后来发现事实并非如此。

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

一只蛋要变成一只鸟可能很难:对它来说,在保持蛋的同时学会飞翔,将是一件令人愉快的事情。我们现在就像鸡蛋。你不可能永远只是一个普通的、体面的鸡蛋。我们必须被孵化,否则就会变坏。

In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!

在巴黎,他们有一种特殊的轮椅,可以通过每个门口。他们不换门口,他们换轮椅。该死的人!如果有人比你重几磅,那就对了!

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

赞成个人意见的人,称之为意见;但那些不喜欢它的人,异端邪说;然而,异端不过是个人观点。

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

与其说人类的幸福来自偶尔发生的鸿运,不如说来自每天都有的小实惠。

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

意见是人类意志的行使,它帮助我们在没有信息的情况下做出决定。

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

一般来说,自从烹饪技术进步以来,人类所吃的食物是大自然所需要的两倍。

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

我不知道我是一个奴隶,直到我发现我不能做我想做的事情。

I found the right one at the wrong time.

我在错误的时间找到了正确的人。