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自我认知
Self-Knowledge
The greatest barrier to self-discovery is our desire to discover ourselves different from what we are.
自我发现的最大障碍是我们想要发现自己不同于自己的欲望。
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
如果你真的低估了自己的价值,请放心,这个世界不会提高你的价格。
We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.
我们总是被告知别人对我们的看法,这就是为什么了解自己是如此重要。
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
恐惧是一个问题。你害怕什么,为什么?我们的恐惧是自我认知的宝库,如果我们去探索它。
I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.
我害怕向你展示真实的我,因为如果我向你展示真实的我,你可能不喜欢——这就是我所得到的一切。
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
在一部最高等级的戏剧中,没有什么可以指责或仇恨的东西;它教的是自我认识和自尊。
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
人必须了解自己。如果这不能帮助我们发现真理,那么它至少可以作为生活的准则,没有什么比这更好的了。
Many are averse to the revelation of unsuspected resources within themselves because of the discomfort it engenders over their having lain waste for so long.
许多人都不愿意透露自己内心那些毫无疑问的资源,因为它们被浪费了这么长时间,让人感到不安。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
对美德最致命的敌人是完全的自知之明。
I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.
我知道我的工作是什么;那就是出去见见人们,爱他们。
Many of our difficulties arise from our acting on the basis, not of what we are, but of what we were.
我们的许多困难来自于我们的行动,不是基于我们是谁,而是基于我们曾经是谁。
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
要了解自己,就要坚持自己。
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
他了解宇宙,却不了解自己。
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
在其他生物中,他们自己的无知是自然的,但在人类中,这是一种恶习。