He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

  • -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan 理查德·布林斯利·谢里丹

他的笑话要归功于他的记忆力,事实要归功于他的想象力。

相关名言

Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

真理从事实中产生,但它们又深入到事实中,并加以补充;这些事实又无限地创造或揭示新的真理(这个词是无关紧要的)等等。与此同时,“事实”本身并不真实。他们只是。真理是信仰的功能,信仰在真理中开始和结束。

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

事实不是真理;它们不是结论;它们甚至不是前提,而是前提的性质和部分。

I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them.

我被狗弄得既狼狈不堪,又感激它们。