A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
真理
Truth
It's better to hurt me with the truth than to comfort me with a lie.
与其用谎言来安慰我，不如用真相来伤害我。
Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.
确信自己知道整个故事是失败的最可靠方法。
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
诗歌的魅力已经足够了，但散文也必须令人信服。
Let us not love with words or speech but with our actions and truth.
我们相爱，不要只在言语和言语上，总要在行为和诚实上。
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
没有什么比真理更强大，也没有什么比真理更奇怪。
Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.
报纸已经退化。他们现在可能是绝对可靠的。
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
对生者我们应该尊重，对死者我们只应该了解真相。
I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly.
我只知道自己在想什么，我想把它表达清楚。
When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.
当一些人同意我的观点时，我开始怀疑我错了。
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
比起书中赤裸裸的谎言，我更喜欢现实中诚实的行话。
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
没有什么比知道得少更使人怀疑的了。
Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
科学用公开的、可证实的证据取代了个人的偏见。
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All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.
所有的艺术都是抽象的，因为艺术是对真理的抽象。
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
我们贪婪地吞下任何奉承我们的谎言，但对于我们感到苦涩的真理，我们只是一点一点地啜饮。
Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.
语言是人们思考的方式。当你误用词语时，你就会降低清晰而真实地思考的能力。
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
没有什么尊严比量入为出更让人印象深刻，也没有什么独立性比量入为出更重要。
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
唯一不能原谅的恶习是虚伪。伪君子悔改本身就是伪善。
It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.
使人成为科学家的，不是他对知识和无可辩驳的真理的掌握，而是他对真理孜孜不倦、不顾一切的批判追求。