You can create impression on yourself by being yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there’s nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.

  • -- Michael Frayn 迈克尔·弗莱恩

他意识到,你可以通过做正确的自己来给自己留下印象,但要给别人留下好印象,没有什么比完全错误和灾难性错误更糟糕的了。

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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

一个人永远不应该羞于承认自己犯了错误,这只是在说,换句话说,他今天比昨天更聪明。

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

真诚并不总是真实的;相反,错误往往比真理更为严重。