Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

  • -- Robert Quillen 罗伯特·奎伦

讨论是知识的交流;争论是无知的交换。

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To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

阅读一项讨论的报告,其中提出了赞成和反对的论点,从不同的角度讨论了一个问题,提出了新的观点- -这比阅读就该问题通过的决议的简要说明更有指导意义。

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.

有时候,谁会在一个人愿意给出许多理由的时候,还能给出这么多理由呢?这无疑是辩论中软弱的表现。

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

在教育中,没有什么比它以惰性事实的形式积累的无知更令人震惊的了。

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

瞎子领瞎子,两个人都要掉在坑里。