A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
真理
Truth
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
人生的大多数基本真理乍听之下都是荒谬的。
In this life we want nothing but facts, sir; nothing but facts.
在这一生中,我们除了事实什么也不要,先生;不过事实。
The truth may hurt for a little while, but a lie hurts forever.
真相也许会让你痛一阵,但谎言会让你痛一辈子。
I want truth. I'm crying out to hear it. I need it like oxygen.
我想要真相。我都快哭出来了。我需要它,就像需要氧气一样。
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
信仰包含许多似乎相互矛盾的真理。
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
在这些问题上,唯一确定的是没有什么是确定的。
The light of revelation cannot shine through the fire of anger.
启之光不能从怒中发出。
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
只有当一个人把真理据为己有时,他的个性才算成熟。
It is said that life and death are under the power of language.
据说生与死都在语言的力量之下。
If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
如果你想惹恼你的邻居,就告诉他们真相。
As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.
作为一名记者,人们往往认为没有什么是禁区。
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
理性一直存在,但并不总是以合理的形式存在。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
如果你用一个人能听懂的语言和他说话,他会记在脑子里。如果你用他的语言和他交谈,那就会打动他的心。
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。
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
一个完全是谎言的谎言也许会被人当面揭穿和反驳,但一个部分是事实的谎言就更难反驳了。
Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.
理论不仅规定了我们所知道的东西,而且告诉我们我们想知道什么,也就是需要答案的问题。
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
永远不要为自己的感情而道歉。当你这样做的时候,你是在为真相道歉。
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
相信我,诚实的怀疑比一半的信条更有信仰。