A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
愚蠢
Stupid
Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
谁更愚蠢?傻瓜还是跟着它的傻瓜?
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
艺术气质是折磨业余爱好者的疾病。
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
只有傻瓜和死人永远不会改变他们的看法。
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
拒绝做算术的人注定要胡说八道。
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
我是一只没有脑子的熊,长篇大论使我心烦意乱。
Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
看哪,我作了愚妄的事,而且大大错了。
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
自负是一种麻醉剂,它能减轻愚蠢带来的痛苦。
The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine.
愚蠢和无知是人类共同的祸根。
I was raised to think cursing makes you look unintelligent.
我从小就认为咒骂会让你看起来不聪明。
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
忘记自己的目标是最常见的愚蠢行为。
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
众神自己也徒然与愚妄相争。
I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.
我认识漂亮的傻瓜,也认识丑陋的白痴。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.
如果你不喜欢别人假装喜欢的东西,不要觉得自己很傻。
A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
愚妄人尽吐心中的意念。智慧人保守到底。
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
蠢人不懂知识只凭想象行事,学究不懂想象只凭知识行事。
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you will never learn.
如果你隐藏自己的无知,没有人会打你,你永远也学不会。
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
完全的无知并不是那么可怕或极端的邪恶,也远不是最大的邪恶;太多的聪明和学问,再加上不良的教养,是致命得多的。
Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.
愚妄人若静默,自以为有智慧;若缄默,自以为通达。