A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
真理
Truth
A chronicle is very different from history proper.
编年史与历史本身有很大的不同。
If you believe what you say, words become reality.
如果你相信你所说的话，语言就会变成现实。
A man convinced against his will is not convinced.
违背自己意愿而被说服的人是不会被说服的。
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
说真话不需要太多的言语。
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
当人们有追求真理的自由时，真理就会被发现。
The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.
真相必须在舞台上显得可信。
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
毫无疑问，真理是美丽的;但谎言也是如此。
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
从一个错误到另一个错误，你会发现整个真相。
You always admire what you really don't understand.
你总是欣赏你真正不懂的东西。
No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.
没有人告诉我们真相，即使是我们爱的人。
Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
没有良心的科学是灵魂的堕落。
It's harder to make the glass than break the glass.
做杯子比打碎杯子难。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational.
意见不影响事实。但事实应该影响意见，如果你是理性的，事实也应该影响意见。
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
认为一种观点从一个世纪传到另一个世纪，从一代传到另一代，可能并不完全是错误的，这纯粹是一种幻觉。
This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
这意味着没有一种逻辑强大到足以支撑人类知识的全部建构。
The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
对真理的探索，是对真理的爱的追求，对真理的认识，是对真理的存在，对真理的信仰，是对真理的享受，是人类本性至高无上的美德。
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
为自己的原则而奋斗比实践这些原则要容易。
Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.
言语不过是思想投下的阴影。但它们所代表的思想是真实的。