名人名言

名人名言

*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 mind.

--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 nourished.

--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

*精神

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

--Sholem Asch

不是记忆力，恰恰相反，是遗忘构成了我们赖以生存的必要条件之一。

--谢洛姆·阿施

Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

--Ugo Betti

记忆就像岩石，时间和距离如酸质般将它侵蚀。

--雨果·贝蒂

The prodigal robs his heir, the miser himself.

--Thomas Fuller

挥霍者掠夺他的继承人的财产，守财奴掠夺自己的财产。

--托马斯·福勒

Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its ardour and activity. --La Rochefoucauld

正如踌躇满志是精神的激情和活力，中庸则是心灵的怠惰。

--拉罗什福科

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

--William Ralph Inge

当一个人试图创造美的事物或者发现真理时，他从不感到厌烦。

--威廉·拉尔夫·英奇

To be conscious of that you are ignorant is the great step to knowledge.

--Benjamin Disraeli

意识到自己的无知是认识的第一步。

--本杰明·迪斯累利

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

--Montaigne

航行若没有确定的目的港，风决不会助他一臂之力。

--蒙田

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automation.

--Einstein

人就像其他任何一种动物，生性懒惰。如果没有刺激，他便不动脑筋，如同自动化系统一般按习惯行事。

--爱因斯坦

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

--Max Lerner

当你在内心找到一种可以忍受一切痛苦的坚强力量时，成长历程就出现了飞跃。

--马克斯·雷勒

To be adult is to be alone.

--Jean Rostand

长大成人意味着从此孤独。

--让·罗斯丹

Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave./The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.

--Tagore

蜜蜂从花中啜蜜，离开时营营地道谢。／浮夸的蝴蝶却相信花是应该向他道谢的。

--泰戈尔

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

--Racine

爱不是无声的。心灵以各种方式说话。

--拉辛

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and border and salute each other.

--Rainer Maria Rilke

两颗寂寞的心相爱护、相偎依、相敬重，爱就在此间。

--里尔克

Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but who branches extend into heaven.

--Bertrand Russell

爱应该像一棵树，根深植于沃土，枝条伸向无垠苍穹。

--伯特兰·罗素

Most of us have no real loves and no real hatreds. Blessed is love, less blessed is hatred,

but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other.

--Mark Rutherford

大多数人既没有真正的爱，也没有真正的恨，爱最值称贺，其次是恨，最该诅咒的是冷漠，因为它既不是爱也不是恨。

--马克·拉瑟福德

To try may be to die, but not to care is never to be born.

--William Redfield

尝试或许会失去生命，但毫不在乎意味着永远没有生的希望。

--威廉·雷菲尔德

If we imagine any one to love, desire, or hate anything which we ourselves love, hate, or desire, by that very fact we shall love, hate, or desire it the more.

--Spinoza

假如我们想象有那么一个人热爱、憎恨或渴望我们所爱、所恨、所渴望的东西，因着这样一个事实，我们将爱得更深、恨得更多、渴望得更强烈。

--斯宾诺沙

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the steam of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

--Bertrand Russell

在这世界上，人要想快乐，尤其是当青春已逝之际，人必须认为自己不仅仅是生命行将结束的孤立个人，而且还是生命之溪的一部分，这溪从第一颗胚胎流起，一直流向遥远的未知的未来。

--伯特兰·罗素

Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.

--Thomas Fuller

不要深究创伤，否则你会弄出一道新的伤口。

--托马斯·福勒

A theorist without practice is a tree without fruit, and a devotee without learning is a house without an entrance.

--Sa'di

没有实践的理论家是一颗不结果实的树，没有学识的爱好者是座没有入口的房子。

--萨迪

There is only one success──to be able to spend your life in your own way.

--Christopher Morley

世界只存在一种成功──做到以自己的方式度过一生。

--克里斯托弗·莫里

Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

--Havelock Ellis

痛苦和死亡是生命的一部分，拒绝痛苦和死亡就是拒绝生命。

--哈弗洛克·埃利斯

Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing seems impossible.

--Henry Ford

不断地思考未来，不断地想着多做事，会达到一种无所不能的精神状态。

--亨利·福特

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

--Publilius Syrus

不容变更的计划不是好计划。

--普布里利亚斯·西拉斯

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

--James Russell Lowell

孤独是成熟心灵的护士。

--詹姆斯·罗素·洛威尔

Isolation breeds conceit.

--Charles Dudley Warner

封闭自守滋生骄傲自满。

--查尔斯·达德利·华纳

He punishes himself who repents of his deeds.

--Publilius Syrus

后悔做过的事，就是惩罚自己。

--普布里利亚斯·西拉斯

Only those who have, receive.

--Joseph Roux

只有本身具备，才能接受。

--约瑟夫·鲁

I would rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.

--George Herbert

我宁愿骑驮着我走的驴而不愿骑扔下我的马。

--乔治·赫伯特

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

--Dostoevsky

最大的幸福是懂得不幸的根源。

--陀思妥耶夫斯基

The Unexamined life is not worth living.

--Socrates

没有被思考过的生活不值得过。

--苏格拉底

When we are restless we raise dust all about us and we forget the supreme truth that "We are."

--Tagore

我们躁动不安，扬起周围的尘土，此时我们忘记了至理：“我们活着。”

--泰戈尔

Every situation──nay, every moment──is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

--Goethe

每一个情景──不，每一时刻──都具有无限价值；因为它代表着整个永恒。

--歌德

*智慧

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called for by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

--Maurice Maeterlinck

当失去心爱的人时，我们抛洒悲苦的眼泪，那是因为我们想起了过去没有好好地深爱他们。--莫里斯·梅特林克

The thought of the eternal efflorescence of music is comforting one, and comes like a messenger of peace in the midst of universal disturbance.

--Roman Rolland

在这普遍混乱中，音乐永远繁荣发展的想法令人欣慰，它仿佛是来自祥和安宁之境的使者。--罗曼·罗兰

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

--W. H. Auden

最令人激动的节奏似乎很复杂，出人意外；最优美的旋律听起来简单自然。

--怀·休·奥登

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

--William James

智慧就是懂得该忽略什么的技巧。

--威廉·詹姆斯

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

--Rousseau

青年是学习智慧之季，老年是实践智慧之时。

--卢梭

The wind-footed steed is broken down in his speed, whilst the camel-driver jogs on with his beast to the end of his journey.

--Sa'di

疾走如飞的骏马在快速行进中倒下，而赶骆驼者与骆驼缓缓而行却到达终点。

--萨迪

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

--John F. Kennedy

不要祈求轻松的生活，要祈祷成为更加坚强的人。

--约翰·弗·肯尼迪

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

--Henry Ward Beecher

权宜之计只为暂时，而原则则是长久之计。

--亨利·沃德·毕切

There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.

--Walter Savage Landor

思想狭隘，愚昧无知和趾高气扬的最肯定标志莫过于远离和自己意见不一致的人们。

--瓦尔特·塞维杰·兰德

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

--Bertrand Russell

没有公德社会不复存在，没有个人德行，个人的存在也失去价值。

--伯特兰·罗素

To speak less of one's self than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

--Montaigne

贬低自己不是谦虚，而是愚蠢；为掉价的报酬而接受贬低，是懦弱，是胆小。

--蒙田

Structure without life is dead. But life without structure is unseen.

--John Cage

没有生命力的结构是死的，而没有结构的生命则无法看见。

--约翰·盖奇

*时间

Time heals what reason cannot.

--Seneca

时间治愈理智无法抚平的伤痛。

--塞内加

Never do I hesitate to look squarely at the unexpected face that every passing hour unveils to us, and to sacrifice the false images of it formed in advance, however dear they may be. --Roman Rolland

每一个流逝的时刻都为我们揭开面纱，露出一张不期而至的面庞，我毫不犹豫地正视她，抛弃先前不真实的幻想，不管它们多么宝贵。

--罗曼·罗兰

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

--John Bath

事物本身不具有价值；它的价值是从外部人为地界定从而归属于它的。

--约翰·巴思

How much of human life is lost in waiting!

--Emerson

多少生命在等待中浪费！

--爱默生

Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

--La Rochefoucauld

我们常常在软弱中变得坚强，在懦弱中练出胆量。

--拉罗什福科

Be not penny-wise: riches have wings, and sometimes they fly away of themselves; sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

--Bacon

不要斤斤计较：财富长有翅膀，有时会自己飞走，有时必须让它飞走以挣得更多的财富。多少生命在等待中浪费！