People tend to think that I know less about what I'm talking about than I actually do - usually people who think that all aristocrats are stupid.

  • -- Christopher Walter Monckton 克里斯托弗·沃尔特·蒙克顿

人们往往认为我对自己在说些什么知道得比实际上少——通常认为所有贵族都很愚蠢的人。

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Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

人类习惯于认为智力是拥有和控制思想的力量,学习能力是拥有思想的能力的同义词。但是,通过有想法来学习,实际上是自然界中罕见而孤立的事件之一。

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

这种对痛苦的恐惧是一种相当低级的本能,而且……如果我想到我所认识的人和我自己的生活,尽管如此,我想不起任何一个痛苦的例子,总的来说,没有丰富我的生活。

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

如果人们敢于毫无保留地彼此交谈,一百年后的世界将会少很多悲伤。

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

生活中的每件事都有风险,你必须学会如何驾驭它。

It hurts that you don't love me but i can stand the fact that you actually lied all along.

你不爱我,我很伤心,但我能忍受你一直在说谎的事实。

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

期望是一流真理的一种形式:如果人们相信它,它就是真的。