英语名言

Bertrand Russell quotes 罗素名言精粹.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

All movements go too far.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

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In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

经验篇

All is but lip-wisdom that wants experience. (Philip Sideney, British satesman)

凡是没有实际经验的，都只是口头智慧。(英国政治家锡得尼D .)

Expericence is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. (Law Vernon, British writer)

经验是一位先行测试然后才授课严厉的教师。(英国作家弗农. L.)

Experience is not interesting till it begins to repeat itself, in fact, till it does that ,it hardly is experience. (Elizabeth Bowen, British novelist)

经验直到自我重复时才变得有意义，事实上，直到那时才算得上经验。(英国小说家鲍恩E.)

Expericence is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. (Aldous Leonard Huxley, American writer)

经验不会从天而降；经验只有通过实践才能获得。(美国作家郝胥黎.A.L.)

Experience is the child of thought , and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books. (Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman)

经验是思想之子，思想是行动之子，了解他人不可以书本为据。(英国政治家迪斯雷利B .)

Experience is the na me give their mistakes. (Oscar Wilde, British playwriter and poet)

经验是每个人为其错误寻找的代名词。(英国剧作家、诗人王尔德O.)

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. (Dan Stanfort, American brsinessman)

经验是当你没得到想得到之物时所得到的东西。(美国实业家斯坦福。D.)

Expreience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other. (Benjamin Franklin, Americna president)

经验始终是收费高的学校，然而，笨汉非进此学校不可。(美国总统富兰克林B )

Experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues. (Bendict de spinoza, Dutch philosopher)

经验给我们太多的教训，告诉我们人类最难管制的东西，莫过于自己的舌头。(荷兰哲学家斯宾诺沙B)

Experience never misleads; what you are missed by is only your judgement, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experements. (Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian painter)

经验永远不会对你做错误的引导；把你引导错的只是你自己的判断，而你的判断之所以对你发生误导的作用，乃是由于它根据那种并非借着实验而产生的经验来预料的结果。(意大利画家达芬奇)

Experience without learning is better than learning without excperi-ence. (Bertuand Russell, British philosopher and mathematician)

有经验而无学问胜于有学问而无经验。(英国哲学家、数学家罗素.B.)

I have but one lamp wait which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. (Patrick Henry, Americna statesman)

我只拿一盏灯来指引我的脚步，而那盏灯就是经验，对于未来，我只是能以过去来判断。(美国政治家享利.P.)

Mistakes are an essential part of education. (Bertrand Russell, Bdritish philosopher)

从错误中吸取教训是教育极为重要的一部分。(英国哲学家罗素. B .)

Neither beliver nor reject anything, because any other person has rejected of believed it. Heaven has given you a mind for judging truth and error, Use it. (Thomas Jefferson, American president) 不要因为别的人相信或否定了什么东西，你也就去相信它或否定它。上帝赠予你一个用来判断真理和谬误的头脑。那你就去运用它吧/ (美国总统杰斐逊 .T.)

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. (James Russell Lowell, British Poet and critic)

一次痛苦的经验抵得上千百次的告诫。(英国诗人、批评家洛威尔.J. R .)

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. (Samuel Smiles, British writer) 实用的知识只有通过亲身体验才能学到。(英国作家斯迈尔斯 . S .)

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. (Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer) 谚语是从长期经验中获得的短句。(班牙作家塞万提斯.M.)

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations. (Alfred North Whitehead, British philosopher and nathematician)

世界的悲剧就在于有想象力又缺乏经验，而有经验的人又缺乏想象力。(英国哲学家、数学家怀特海 .A . N.)

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. (Grorge Santayana, Spain-born American philosopher and poet)

教育之艰苦在于从意念中获得经验。(西班牙裔美国哲学家、诗人桑塔亚那.G.)

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. (Winston Churchill. British statesman)

傻瓜有时候也是对的。(英国政治家丘吉尔.W.)

To make good use of life one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth. (Stanislars I, Polish king)

青年而有老年之经验，老年而有青年之朝气，就能使人生发挥更大的作用。(波兰国王斯坦尼劳斯一世)

To most men , experience is like the stern light of a ship which il-luminates only the track it has passed. (Samuel Tylor Coleridge, British poet)

对于大多数人，经验像是一艘船上的尾灯，只照亮船驶过的航道。(英国诗人柯勒津治. S .T .)

Too much experience is a dangerous thing. (Oscar Wilde, British dramatist)

经验过多反而危险。(英国剧作家王尔德 . O.)

We know nothing of what will happen in future , but by the analogy of past experience. (Abraham Lincoln , American president)

除了凭着对过去的经验加以类推之外，我们对今后的事一无所知。(美国总统林肯 . A .)

英语名言I

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

名称有什么关系呢？玫瑰不叫玫瑰，依然芳香如故。——Shakespeare

There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

崇高与荒谬仅一步之遥。——Napoleon

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

即使所有的专家都一致赞同，他们可能也错了。——Bertrand Russell

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.

有时候你能做的最紧急重要的事情就是彻底休息。——Ashleigh Brilliant

◇自然与科学◇

Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.

滴滴小水珠，颗颗小沙粒，会形成浩瀚的海洋与宜人的土地。——Julia Carney

Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea.

即使是最疲惫的河流，历经曲折，也终会安然入海。——Swinburne

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

人类的历史就是思想的历史。

——Ludwig Von Mises

To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting.

要完全相信，我们首先得怀疑。——Stanislaus

英语名言II

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you get rid of him on the weekends.

给他一条鱼，你可以喂他一天；教他钓鱼，他周末就不会再来缠你了。——Gary Apple

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

真正的科学首先教人怀疑和知道自己无知。

——Miguel de Unamuno

Truth has no special time of it's own. Its hour is now always.

真理没有自己特定的时间段。它的时间永远是现在。——A.Schweitzer

Growing old is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

越来越老并不可怕，可怕的是让人觉得越来越老。——Kenny Rogers

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

如果没有了图书馆，我们还有什么呢？我们没有了过去也没有了未来。

——Kay Bradbury

Scientific knowledge aims at being wholly impersonal.

科学知识要求完全不受个人感情的影响。

——Bertrand Russell

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

生活中没有可怕的东西，只有应去了解的东西。——Marie Curie

Truth is beautiful. Without doubt; and so are lies.

真理是美的；毫无疑问，谎言也是如此。

——Emerson.

英语名言III

Nature never deceives us; it is always us who deceive ourselves.

大自然永远不会欺骗我们，欺骗我们的往往是我们自己。——Rousseau

You can never plan the future by the past.

永远也不能依照过去来计划将来。

——Burke

Time is a versatile performer. It flies, marches on, heals all wounds, runs out and will tell.

时间是个多才多艺的表演者。它能展翅飞翔，能阔步前进，能治愈创伤，能消逝而去，也能揭示真相。

——Franklin P.Jones

The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature.

在所有头脑的影响之中，大自然的影响可谓是在时间上最先，在作用上最为重要的。

——Emerson

◇自然与科学◇

Death…is no more than passing from one room into another.

死亡只不过是从一个房间进入另一个房间。——Helen Keller

Important principles may and must be flexible.

重要的原则能够也必须是灵活的。

——Abraham Lincoln

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

科学的本质是：问一个不恰当的问题，于是走上了通往恰当答案的路。

——Jacob Bronowski

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

在过去人们面临的危险是变成奴隶，而在将来危险是人类可能变成机器人。

——Erich Fromm

英语名言IV

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

知识是一宝库，而实践就是开启宝库大门的钥匙。——Fuller

The Golden Rule is that there are no golden rules.

真正的金科玉律就是世上并无金科玉律。——G.B.Shaw

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other;

who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.

热爱大自然的人内外感觉协调一致，即使进入成年后依然保持着童心。

——Emerson

Ten men banded together in love can do what ten thousand separately would fail in.

以爱心聚在一起的十个人能够完成一万个分散的人做不到的事情。——Thomas Carlyle

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts.

想象不应脱离现实。——A.N. Whitehead

There are two sides to every story ... at least.

每个故事都可以从两个方面看，至少两个方面。——Ann Landers

Today is not yesterday. We ourselves change. How then can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be fittest, continue always the same?

今天不同于昨天。我们自己也在改变。那么，我们的著作和思想，如果想永远不过时，怎么能始终不改变呢？

——Thomas Carlyle

Love alone can release the power of the atom so it will work for man and not against him.

只有爱才能使原子的力量造福人类，而非危害人类。——W. A. Peterson

英语名言V

Life is long if you know how to use it.

如能善于利用，生命乃长。——Seneca

The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion is humility.

真理最伟大的朋友是时间，其最大的敌人是偏见，其永远的同伴是谦逊。——C. C

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

直到夜幕降临，人们才知白昼的辉煌。

——Sophocles

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

静水流深。——Shakespeare

What is a weed? —A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.

什么是杂草？——杂草是一种利用价值尚未被发现的植物。——Emerson

The man of science does not discover in order to know; he wants to know in order to discover.

科学家并非为了知道什么而寻求发现；他们是为了有所发现而想知道什么。

——A. N. Whitehead

Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

动物是如此怡人的朋友，它们不问任何问题，也不提出批评。——George Eliot

Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

天知道今天看来是胡言乱语的东西明天会不会被证明是真理呢？——A. N. Whitehead