A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
怀疑/不确定性
Doubt/Uncertainty
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
知识的开端是发现我们不懂的东西。
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
毛毛虫所谓的世界末日,大师称之为蝴蝶。
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
我们必须了解自己的极限。我们都是有价值的人,但没有一个人是万能的。
Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.
不加思索的信心是一种奇妙的礼物,要献给人类心灵的创造者。
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
每件事都是模糊的,直到你试图使它精确,你才会意识到。
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
一个绝对只能凭直觉给出,其余的都与分析有关。
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
不要把你的秘密托付给他,当他一个人留在你房间时,会把你的文件交给他。
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.
我们的怀疑是叛国者,使我们失去了我们常常可能通过害怕尝试而获得的好处。
To deny, to believe, and to doubt absolutely -- this is for man what running is for a horse.
否认、相信、绝对怀疑——这对于人来说就像奔跑对于马一样。
We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.
我们正处于合作与灾难之间的竞赛,我们的应对能力正受到威胁。
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of douts of my own.
如果你一定要告诉我你的意见,告诉我你的信仰。我自己也有很多缺点。
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
如果你相信的太多,你可能会被骗;但是如果你相信的不够,你将活在痛苦中。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Only do what your heart tells you.
只做你内心告诉你的。
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
智慧的第一步是质疑一切,最后一步是接受一切。
If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
如果你没有感到困惑,你就没有集中注意力。
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
不要把生命浪费在怀疑和恐惧中;把你自己花在你面前的工作上,充分肯定正确地履行这一小时的职责将是为随后的几个小时和几岁做好的最好准备。
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
我开始相信整个世界是一个谜,一个无害的谜,我们疯狂地试图去解释它,仿佛它有一个潜在的真理,这使它变得可怕。
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
一个人不能吞下他无法消化的信念。