Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

  • -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格

偏见可以说是人类的机械本能:通过他们的偏见,他们不费任何力气就做了许多事情,他们会发现很难想清楚,以至于决定去做这些事情。

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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice

要更有效地阻止真理的发现,不是因为眼前的假象,也不是因为推理能力的弱点,而是因为先入之见和偏见

Your initial instincts about investments and people are usually correct. We do a lot of due diligence in this business and most of the time it comes out where we started.

你对投资和人的最初直觉通常是正确的。我们在这个行业做了很多尽职调查,大多数时候都是从头开始的。

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

我不想在我和纸之间有任何机械的东西,包括打字机,我甚至不想在我和纸之间有自来水笔。

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

语言上的机械困难是思想上的内在困难的结果。

Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.

有时候当你开得很快的时候,你的直觉会很有用。

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

我从来没有在预览前读过一本书;它使人如此偏见。