A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
愚蠢
Stupid
To the dumb question, why me? The cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: 'Why not.'
对于这个愚蠢的问题，为什么是我?宇宙几乎懒得回答:“为什么不呢?”
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
几乎所有的新思想刚产生时都有其愚蠢的一面。
No amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.
再多的学习也无法治愈愚蠢，而高等教育却能积极地强化它。
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
傻瓜有时候是防止被聪明人欺骗的最好保障。
It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
真是个可怜的脑袋，连两个单词都想不出来。
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
我希望你有时能读一点诗。你的无知妨碍了我的谈话。
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
任何一个一无所知的人，都不会愚蠢到否认所有人生来就是自由的。
So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.
只要能取得胜利，愚蠢的匆忙总比聪明的拖拉好。
Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
愚蠢起得早;这就是为什么事情总是发生在早晨。
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
但这样的人要多得多，他们想得太少，说得太多。
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
有些想法大错特错，只有非常聪明的人才会相信它们。
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
知识分子是这样一种人，他说的话比他知道的要多。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
You can never understand why people do stupid things for love, unless you, yourself experience how it is to be in love.
你永远不会明白为什么人们会为爱做傻事，除非你自己亲身体验过恋爱的滋味。
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
如果愚人坚持他的愚蠢，他就会变得聪明。
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。
It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
聪明人知道勇气的终点和愚蠢的起点。
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
一个有学问的傻瓜比一个无知的傻瓜更笨。
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。