A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

  • -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 甘地

原则是完美的表现,因为像我们这样不完美的人不能实践完美,所以我们在实践中每时每刻都在设计妥协的极限。

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No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

没有人生来就知道真理,知道全部的真理,除了真理什么也不知道;即使是最优秀的人也必须满足于片断,满足于局部的一瞥,而不是全部的果实。

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

天才也许有其局限性,但愚蠢并非如此。