Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

  • -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯

教育,n。诗歌向智慧人显明自己无知的,向愚昧人隐藏自己无知的。

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Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.

鲸鱼只有在浮出水面时才会被鱼叉叉住,海龟只有在伸出脖子时才会向前移动,但投资者无论如何都要面临风险。

The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.

商业腐败的问题在于,人们对它感到愤怒,很容易忽视腐败常常掩盖的系统性问题。

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

大多数人失败是因为他们缺乏坚持去制定新的计划来代替那些失败的计划。

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

只要你生活和工作,你就会被误解;为此,你必须一劳永逸地放弃自己。保持沉默!

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

我不喜欢愚蠢的想法,但我很快就明白了失败和愚蠢是至关重要的。

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

创造性的本质在于它的新颖性,因此我们没有判断它的标准。

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

人类的失败只有一个原因。那就是人对真实的自我缺乏信心。

Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.

太多的夫妻在不了解其家庭后果的情况下就分手了。

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

如果一个人不知道要驶向哪个港口,那就没有顺风。

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

宁为聪明的愚夫,不作愚蠢的才子。