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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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

委员会的性质是有机的而不是机械的:它不是一个结构,而是一个工厂。它生根、成长、开花、枯萎、死亡,播下的种子将由其他委员会轮流开花。

Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.

做真实的自己,跟随你的直觉——不要做一个你不适合的人。

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

我教我的学生不要用规则或机械的方式去看东西。

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。

Trust your gut.

相信自己的直觉。