名人名言(一)

*科学

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
--Charles Sanders Pierce
对于科学，有比才智更加重要的，那就是真诚希望发现真理而不管它是何种真理。
--查尔斯·桑德斯·皮尔斯

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me.
--Montaigne
不能驾驭外界，我就驾驭自己，如果外界不适应我，那么我就去适应它们。
--蒙田

He is man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.
--Goethe
一个人如果从不满意自己，那么别人要讨他欢喜也是枉然。
--歌德

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
--Washington Irving
有些人仿佛自己创造自己，在逆境中崛起，在无数阻碍中孤独然而却是不可抗拒地开辟自己的道路。
--华盛顿·欧文

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
--Napoleon I
如果想把事情做好，那就亲自动手。
--拿破仑一世

"Let me light my lamp,"/says the star,/"And never debate/if it helps to remove the darkness."
--Tagore
星星说：／“让我点燃我的明灯吧，／永远不要去想它／是否能帮助驱走黑暗。”
--泰戈尔

But I know life is simple, however complex the organism may be; and everything goes to pieces when the living truth of the central simplicity is lost.
--Tagore
我知道，尽管机体非常复杂，生命依然简单质朴，当失去了最基本的简朴时，一切都将破碎。
--泰戈尔

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
--Plato
风格之美、和谐、优雅和优美的节奏全在于简单。
--柏拉图

Calumnies are answered best with silence.
--Ben Jonson
沉默是对诽谤的最有力回击。
--本·琼森

It is not by meticulous care in avoiding all contaminations that we can keep our spirit clean and give it grace, but by urging it to give vigorous _expression to its inner life in the very midst of all the dust and heat.
--Tagore
要保持精神纯洁，给精神增添光彩，不是靠小心避免污染，而是鼓励它在尘土和狂热中，顽强地表达内心世界。
--泰戈尔

I think, therefore I am.
--Descartes
我思，故我在。
--笛卡儿

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
--John Locke
那些不期而至，仿佛从天而降的思想，通常是我们所有思想中最具有价值的部分。
--约翰·洛克

*思想

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
--Ezra Pound
重要的不是思想，而是思想的深度。
--伊兹拉·庞德

The thinker dies; but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.
--Walter Lippmann
思想家会离开人世，但它的思想将永不消亡，人不能永生，思想却可以永存。
--沃尔特·里普曼

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
--Bertrand Russell
只有与现实联姻，我们的理想才能结果。倘若脱离现实，理想将永无生机。
--伯特兰·罗素

The larger the field of activity the personality has, the greater will be its insights into reality.
--William F. Lynch
人的活动范围越广，对现实的洞察越深刻。
--威廉·林奇

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
--Andre Gide
真正的智者一眼就看出超过自己的人，这就是为什么真正的智者虚怀若谷。
--安德烈·纪德

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought.
--Erich Fromm
理智是人类凭借思想领悟世界的能力，才智则相反，是人类借助思想把持世界的能力。
--埃里希·弗罗姆

Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by claims of love.
--Tagore
生命因世界对它的要求而得到财富，因爱心对它的要求而有了价值。
--泰戈尔

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgement.
--La Rochefoucauld
人人抱怨自己的记忆力，却无人抱怨自己的判断力。
--拉罗什福科

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
--Andre Gide
真正的善心必先有能力把他人的痛苦和欢乐想象成自己的痛苦和欢乐。
--安德烈·纪德

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
--Susan K. Langer
要获得知识，必须提出大量问题。
--苏珊·朗格

The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing.
--Voltaire
我读的越多，思考越深入；收获越大，越使我确信自己浅薄无知。
--伏尔泰

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war.
--O. Henry
据说人只有经历过贫穷、爱情和战争才能尝到生活的酸甜苦辣。
--欧·亨利

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
--Tagore
有人给了我们生命，我们唯有献出生命，才能获得生命。
--泰戈尔

*友谊

The friend who understands you, creates you.
--Roman Rolland
了解你的朋友创造你。
--罗曼·罗兰

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
--Aristotle
结交朋友只在一念之间，友谊却是慢慢成熟的果实。
--亚里士多德

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.
--Rollo May
保证未来价值的最有效方法就是积极勇敢地直面现在。
--罗洛·梅

With talent, you do what you like. With genius, you do what you can.
--Jean Ingres
有才能的人，做自己喜爱的事；有天赋的人，做自己能做的事。
--让·安格尔

True good are peacefully desired, sought without eagerness, possessed without elation, and postponed without regret.
--Coventry Patmore
真正的善行，是心平气和地去希冀，从容不迫地去寻找，平静地去拥有，无悔地延迟。
--考文垂·帕特摩尔

Some people are moulded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
--Elizabeth Bowen
有的人由顺境塑造，另一些人则由逆境塑造。
--伊丽莎白·鲍恩

 

*幸福

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mi12
--Alice Meynell
幸福不在于事件，而是取决于心灵的潮起潮落。
--艾丽丝·梅内尔

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
--Gorky
你把幸福捧在手里，看似微不足道，一旦放手，你便立刻感觉到它的重要与珍贵。
--高尔基

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
--Shakespeare
凡事要三思而后行，跑得太快的人会滑倒。
--莎士比亚

 

*爱情与人类

All thoughts, all passions, all delights,/Whatever stirs this mortal frame,/All are ministers of love,/And feed his sacred flame.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
所有思想、激情和愉悦，／扰搅俗世之躯的一切／全都向爱情俯首称臣，／让神圣的爱的火焰永燃。
--塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
--Erich Fromm
不成熟的爱说：“我爱你因我需要你。”成熟的爱说：“我需要你因我爱你。”
--埃里希·弗罗姆

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
--Victor Hugo
人生至高的幸福，便是感到自己有人爱。
--维克多·雨果

Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.
--Henri Frederic Amiel
人只因为智力才成为人，但人要作为人而存在必须依靠其情感。
--亨利·弗雷德里克·埃米尔

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
--Susan Sontag
男子的美在于刚中有柔，女子的美在于柔中有刚。
--苏珊·桑塔格

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.
--D. H. Lawrence
所有生物只有像蒲公英那样，在与太阳，与充满生机的世界的纯洁的交融中怒放，才是完全的自己。
--戴·赫·劳伦斯

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
--Woodrow Wilson
逆流而游的人深知水的力量。
--伍德罗·威尔逊

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
--Gibran
从来就是别离时，才知爱有多深。
--纪伯伦

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
--Diderot
只有伟大的热情才能使灵魂升华到伟大事业中去。
--狄德罗

Look not mournfully into the past./It comes not back again./Wisely improve the Present. It is thine./Go forth to meet the shadowy/Future, without fear, and with many a heart.
--Longfellow
不要再悲哀地回首往昔，它已一去不复返；明智地改善现在，它属于你；满怀信心，勇往直前，迎接迷朦的未来。
--朗费罗

Wherever you are sincerely pleased, you are nouri123
--Emerson
无论何时只要你感到快乐，你就吸收了营养。
--爱默生

One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one fine day.
--Aristotle
一只燕子不成夏天，一日艳阳亦不成夏天。
--亚里士多德

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
--Da Vinci
拥有最多的人也最害怕失去。
--达·芬奇

Give me where to stand and I will move the earth.
--Archimedes
给我一个支点，我可以撬动地球。
--阿基米德

The sercet of success is constancy to purpose.
--Benjamin Disraeli
成功的秘诀是目标坚定。
--本杰明·狄斯累里

Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
--Benjamin Franklin
自己该做的事下定决心去做；决心去做的事一定做好。
--本杰明·富兰克林

As he brews, so shall he drink.
--Ben Jonson
自己酿酒，自己喝。
--本·琼森

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
--Victor Hugo
思考是才智的工作，幻想是才智的乐趣。
--维克多·雨果