A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
知识
Knowledge
知识从好奇开始,在阅读、思考和实践中积累。这里的语句围绕求知与理解展开,适合结合英文关键词和中文译文一起阅读。
Philosophy is common sense with big words.
哲学是大词的常识。
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
有学问的人知道自己无知。
You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
你可以向任何人学习,甚至是你的敌人。
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
活到老,学到老。无论如何,你还活着。
We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.
人活着是为了学习,但聪明的人不会成长。
He fed his spirit with the bread of books.
他以书的食粮充饥。
We profit little by books we do not enjoy.
我们从不喜欢的书中获益甚少。
Experience is always larger than language.
经验总是大于语言。
I took all the philosophy courses I could.
我上了所有我能上的哲学课。
Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
书籍并非稀有的护身符和咒语。
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
让傻瓜读傻瓜写的东西。
Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
阅读是世俗祷告的最后一个动作。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.
自下而上的思考者试图从经验出发,从经验转向理解。他们不会从一些他们事先认为可能是正确的一般原则开始;他们只是希望知道现实是什么样的。
Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.
尽可能广泛深入地阅读。在成为作家之前,你必须先成为一名读者。
When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.
当你阅读的时候,有人为你做了很多工作,有人有了想法,然后写下来,修改和改进,这样他们就可以分享了。
Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.
信息不是知识,知识也不是智慧。
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
自然科学,不是简单地描述和解释自然;它是自然和我们之间相互作用的一部分。
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
科学不过是训练有素、有组织的常识。