Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

  • -- George Gissing 乔治?吉辛

轻率,是智力上最无望的恶习。

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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

伟大的思想使别人变得伟大。他们的优越性是要利用的,不是要把群众变成知识分子的附庸,不是要在他们之上建立一种精神上的专制,而是要把他们从昏睡中唤醒,帮助他们自己作出判断。

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

思想是由题材的多样性和多样性来锻炼的,而性格是由对美德和邪恶的沉思来塑造的。

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

对确定性的要求是人类的天性,但也是一种智力上的恶习。