Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.

把头埋在沙子里不会让你隐形，只会让你窒息。

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil.

但光有善良是不够的。善良要达到善的目的，也需要冷酷无情的智慧。没有智慧的善良必然会导致邪恶。

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

但是，即使失去了最坏的习惯，人们也会感到遗憾。也许人们最后悔的是他们。它们是一个人性格中如此重要的一部分。

But without wisdom, imagination is like a cruel taskmaster.

但是没有智慧，想象就像一个残酷的工头。

By poking at a bamboo thicket, one drives out a snake.

人从竹林里戳出一条蛇来。

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

我们可以通过三种方法来学习智慧:第一，通过反思，这是最高尚的;第二，模仿，这是最容易的;第三是经验，这是最痛苦的。

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

如果一个人的行动、言语和步骤都是清晰的，那就称他为智者，因为他知道为什么。

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

谨慎是智慧的长子。

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

央行没有神圣的智慧。他们试图做最好的分析，他们可以，而且必须准备好忍受或下降的质量的分析。

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

品格就像一棵树，名誉是它的影子。影子就是我们所想的，树才是真实的。

Chase away sorrow by living.

用生活来驱赶悲伤。

Cheap booze is a false economy.

廉价酒是一种虚假的经济。

Cheapen words and they'll cheapen you.

贬低言语，它们就会贬低你。

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

孩子也有艺术才能，有了艺术才能就有了智慧!他们越是无能为力，他们给我们提供的例子就越有教育意义;他们必须从小就保持廉洁。

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

孩子是我们最接近智慧的人，当一切神秘的东西都从他们身上消失的那一刻起，他们就成了成年人。