If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

  • -- John Green 约翰·格林

要是我们能看到我们最小的行为所带来的无穷无尽的后果就好了。但是,只有当知道更好是无用的时候,我们才能知道更好。

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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

乍一看,似乎没有什么比人类行为的外在形式更不重要的了,然而,没有什么比这更值得人们重视的了:除了生活在一个没有自己礼仪的社会里,人们对一切都习以为常了。

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

教育不在于你有多少记忆,甚至不在于你知道多少。它能够区分你知道的和你不知道的。

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

真理在人类中传播得越快,对他们就越有利。只是让我们确信这是事实。

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

行动的必要性消除了对行动的恐惧,使勇敢的决心成为命运的宠儿。

Never underestimate your ability to make someone else's life better - even if you never know it.

永远不要低估你让别人生活得更好的能力——即使你自己都不知道。

I don't know, monogamy is a weird thing for me.

我不知道,一夫一妻制对我来说很奇怪。