A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
真理
Truth
The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
真理只会激怒它所启发的人，而不会使他们改变信仰。
Sometimes before your luck can be good,someone else's has to be bad
有时候，在你的运气变好之前，别人的运气就已经变坏了
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
人可以追求美德，但不能合理地追求真理。
No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
现在没有人死于致命的真理:解药太多了。
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth.
人们倾向于宁可选择顺遂的错误，也不愿选择痛苦的真理。
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
我们生活在一个不必要的东西成为我们唯一必需品的时代。
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
世界在变化，曾经好的想法并不总是好的。
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
准确是诚实的孪生兄弟;不准确,不诚实。
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
信念的实际效果是对其可靠性的真正检验。
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
现实的虚构之外，还有虚构的现实。
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
真理永远不能说出来，以便被人理解而不被人相信。
There are no free lunches in philosophy any more than in real life.
哲学和现实生活中一样没有免费的午餐。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.
我们还了解到，这个国家和西方世界并不垄断善良、真理和学术，我们开始欣赏那些构成美好世界不可或缺的要素。在学习的一生中，这也许是最重要的一课。
We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
我们在这里不关心希望或恐惧，只关心我们的理智允许我们发现的真理。
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
昨天我们服从国王，在皇帝面前弯着脖子。但是今天我们只向真理下跪，只追求美，只服从爱。
Just because you refuse to see something doesn't mean it isn't real.
你拒绝看到某些东西并不意味着它不是真实的。
A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance; its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.
谎言本身没有任何力量;当其他人同意相信谎言时，它的力量就会显现出来。