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确定
Certainty
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
探究对确定性是致命的。
Certainty is better than hope.
确信胜于希望。
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
要确信地相信，我们必须从怀疑开始。
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
没有一件伟大的事情是由寻求确定性的弱者完成的。
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
信念是真理比谎言更危险的敌人。
A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
有一只鸟在手是肯定的。但是灌木丛中的鸟也会唱歌。
More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.
比追求确定性更重要的是追求清晰。
Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position, but certainty is an absurd one.
不确定性是一种不舒服的状态，但确定性是一种荒谬的状态。
The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
最好的缺乏所有的信念，而最差的充满激情的强度。
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
啊，当我们在这一生中急于求成的时候，多么枯燥无味的回答却能使灵魂得到满足!
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
对确定性的要求是人类的天性，但也是一种智力上的恶习。
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
确定是平静与安宁之母，不确定是分歧与争吵之源。
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The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
当今世界上麻烦的根本原因是愚蠢的人自以为是，而聪明的人充满怀疑。
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
人们追求美，是为了使它受到玷污;不是为了它自己，而是为了肯定要亵渎它而带来的快乐。
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
有那么一瞬间，她直直地盯着那双柔和的蓝眼睛，带着一种哺乳动物本能的肯定，她知道那些极其富有的人已经不再是人类了。
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
嫉妒源于怀疑。一旦我们从怀疑过渡到确定，它就会变成疯狂或完全停止。
It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.
然而，只有关于地球上的生命，人们才能有把握地说出来。在我看来，地球上所有的生命，地球上所有生命的总和，都是有目的的。
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
原教旨主义者对家庭的明显解体、确定性的消失和道德的堕落感到恐慌。恐惧使他们问，如果我们不能相信圣经，我们能相信什么?