A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
愚蠢
Stupid
Everyone calls himself a friend; foolish is he who believes it: Nothing is more common than the name friend, And nothing is more rare than the real thing.
每个人都称自己为朋友;相信它的人是愚蠢的:没有什么比朋友的名字更普通，也没有什么比真正的东西更稀有。
It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.
这花了我很长时间，但我不再为愚蠢的事情感到焦虑——或者它们已经被更复杂的愚蠢事情所取代。
Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.
任何傻瓜都能看到看到的极限，但即使是最聪明的人也不知道知道的极限。这样，无知就看不见了。人都成了愚妄人。
Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn’t guarantee you intelligence of another sort. You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.
书本学习，或者一种智力，并不能保证你拥有另一种智力。受过良好的大学教育，你也可以表现得同样愚蠢。
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
没有人愚蠢到没有足够的智慧有时成为一个无赖;也没有哪个无赖像他那样狡猾，有时连装傻的弱点都没有。
The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
人们不知道的唯一原因是他们不关心知道。他们是不关心的。不学无术是最奇怪、最愚蠢的错误。
Pray do not mock. I am a very foolish, fond old man, Fourscore and upward, Not an hour more nor less; and to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
请不要嘲笑我。我是一个非常愚蠢、可爱的老人，八十岁以上，不多也不少;坦白地说，我担心自己的头脑并不完美。
The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.
最糟糕的日子是当你感到头昏脑胀的时候——他们称之为化学脑。这很糟糕，因为你觉得无聊。以及无聊。和愚蠢的。并辞职。
I think I was probably that kid in the neighborhood who you could expect once or twice a year to be knocking on your door trying to sell you something stupid.
我想我可能就是那个你可以指望一年敲你一两次门，想卖给你一些愚蠢东西的邻居。
If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself.
如果我还在做我现在正在做的事情，在这个城市里我仍然有尊严，没有做任何完全愚蠢的事情，那么我就会为自己感到高兴。
Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.
专家什么都知道，就是不知道要点。当我参加公民考试时，那里没有人知道白宫是如何被称为白宫的。
I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.
我太蠢了。无神论者不能支持他们认为上帝不存在的主张。我所能做的最愚蠢的事就是拒绝接受他的事实。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
傻瓜的错误是人人皆知的，但他自己却不知道。聪明人的错误自己知道，但世人不知道。
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
很难想象有比把这些决定交给那些不为错误付出代价的人更愚蠢或更危险的决策方式了。
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
愚妄人坚持自己的愚妄，就必聪明。
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。
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
幸福和智慧是有区别的:认为自己是最幸福的人确实是最幸福的人;但自以为最聪明的人，往往是最愚蠢的人。
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。