Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

  • -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格

偏见可以说是人类的机械本能:通过他们的偏见,他们不费任何力气就做了许多事情,他们会发现很难想清楚,以至于决定去做这些事情。

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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice

要更有效地阻止真理的发现,不是因为眼前的假象,也不是因为推理能力的弱点,而是因为先入之见和偏见

Your initial instincts about investments and people are usually correct. We do a lot of due diligence in this business and most of the time it comes out where we started.

你对投资和人的最初直觉通常是正确的。我们在这个行业做了很多尽职调查,大多数时候都是从头开始的。

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

从他们的经验或他人(历史)的记录经验中,人们只能学到他们的激情和形而上学的偏见允许他们学到的东西。

Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.

做真实的自己,跟随你的直觉——不要做一个你不适合的人。

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

我教我的学生不要用规则或机械的方式去看东西。

I just write mechanical things.

我只是写一些机械的东西。