A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
愚蠢
Stupid
The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.
过去的文化发展相对缓慢，所以你可以瞄准目标。现在它移动得如此之快，如此毛绒绒的，毫无意义，你甚至抱怨它都觉得自己像个白痴。
How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?
人们怎么会这么蠢?我对此感到惊奇。你看，我认为你必须像一个无知的人一样工作——如果你想努力变得无知，为什么不努力变得博学呢?
A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure---critics all are ready made. Take hackneyed jokes from Miller, got by rote, With just enough of learning to misquote.
一个人必须为他的每一笔交易服务，除了指责——所有的批评都准备好了。就拿米勒的那些老掉牙的笑话来说吧，这些笑话都是死记硬背的，你只需要学习足够多的知识就能错误地引用。
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。
You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.
当你在演戏的时候，你没有任何愚蠢的感觉。当你年轻的时候，你不想看起来像个傻瓜，所以你不会做一些可能会让你脆弱的事情。
There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.
这种愚蠢地使用统计数据的做法——在广播节目中也有所反映。它向所有聪明的人暗示，使用统计数据是愚蠢的。
Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
然而，通过长期的经验和在有学问的学校里的刻苦学习，我所能获得的一切，就是知道我的知识不过是虚妄的，而那些自以为聪明的人，却是最大的傻瓜。
I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
我从来不擅长学习。我做的工作刚好够及格。在我看来，做得太多就不够了，所以我尽可能少工作。
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
指出皇帝没有穿衣服一直是小孩子和傻子的特权。但是，笨蛋还是笨蛋，皇帝还是皇帝。
I want to figure out a way to not be stupid with money, then make a whole bunch of it, then I want to move to Outer Mongolia. I want to milk a yak. Maybe I'll just settle for a cow.
我想找到一个不傻钱的方法，然后赚一大笔钱，然后我想搬到外蒙古。我想挤牦牛的奶。也许我只要一头牛就可以了。
You know, at that age you want to show everyone else how wild you are. It's a combination of being bored, looking for a cheap thrill and being really stupid - a dangerous combination.
你知道，在那个年纪，你想让别人知道你有多狂野。这是无聊、寻求廉价刺激和愚蠢的结合——一个危险的结合。
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
还有比这更愚蠢的事吗?一个人住在河的另一边，他的统治者和我的统治者发生了争吵，而我却没有和他争吵过。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
创造力是愚蠢的突然停止。
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
有学问的傻瓜比无知的傻瓜更傻。
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。
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。
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。
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。