这个国家最让我心悸的,不是国家机器任意妄为地作恶,而是占据主流力量的普通人 纷纷告诉你:这个国家就是这样的,你改变不了的,习惯了就行。他们可能是你的同 学,同事,朋友,亲人,爱人。只要自己不被伤害,他们可以容忍任何人被伤害。
--匿名
我们必须不能停止探索,而一切探索的尽头,就是重回起点,并首次对起点有真正的了解。
--艾略特
重大问题发生时,依我们当时的思想水准往往无法解决。
--爱因斯坦
如果我们时时忙着展现自己的知识,将何从忆起成长所需的无知?
--梭罗
人的行为总是一再重复。因此,卓越不是单一的举动,而是习惯。
亚里斯多德
The key is to find the actionable investments where you disagree with the consensus.
--Paul Kedrosky, a venture capitalist
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
--Thomas Edison. From http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
--Thomas Edison. From http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison
Common sense is not so common.
--Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique (1764)
All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can change, and the wisdom to know the difference.
--Reinhold Niebuhr
Treat a man as a he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he shall become as he can and should be.
--歌德
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
--Albert Einstein
Be the change you want to see in the world.
--Gandhi
有其言,无其行,君子耻之。
--子思
生活中的问号是开拓未来的钥匙。
-- 巴尔扎克
人间最大的智慧在于洞悉本身的弱点。
-- 法国谚语
言者无罪,闻之者足以戒。
-- 子夏
夫君子之行,静以修身,俭以养德。非淡泊无以明志,非宁静无以致远。夫学,欲静也;才,须学也。非学无以广才,非静无以成学。慆慢则不能研精,险躁则不能理性。年与时驰,意与日去,遂成枯落,多不接世。悲守穷庐,将复何及!
-- 诸葛亮,《诫子书》
好读书,不求甚解;每有会意,便欣然望食。
-- 陶渊明
机遇只偏爱有准备的头脑。
-- 巴斯德
知之者不如好之者,好之者不乐之者。
-- 孔子
君子之交淡如水,小人之交甘若醴。
-- 庄子
思考是人类最大的快乐。
-- 伽利略
书山有路勤为径,学海无涯苦作舟。
-- 韩愈
读而未晓则思,思而未晓则读。
-- 朱熹
纸上得来终觉浅,绝知此事要躬行。
-- 陆游
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
-- Thomas Babington Macaulay
The important thing in life is to have a great aim and the determination to attain it.
-- Goethe
古之成大事业、大学问者,必经三种之境界:昨夜西风凋碧树,独上高楼,望尽天涯路。此第一境也。衣带渐宽终不悔,为伊消得人憔悴。此第二境也。众里寻他千百度,蓦然回首,那人却在灯火阑珊处。此第三境也。
-- 王国维
A pessimist makes difficulties of his opportunities, an optimist makes opportunities of his difficulties.
-- Harry Truman
The unexamined life is not worth living.
-- Socrates
科学的真理不应在古代圣贤的蒙着灰尘的书上去寻找,而应该在试验中和以实验为基础的理论中去找。真正的哲学是写在那本经常在我们眼前打开着的最伟大的书里面的。这本书就是宇宙,就是自然本身,人们必须去读它。
-- 伽利略,《关于托勒密和哥白尼两大世界体系的对话》
你想知道一个人内心里缺乏什么,不看别的,就看他炫耀什么;你想知道一个人自卑什么,不看别的,就看他掩饰什么。
-- 匿名
The one real object of education is to leave a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
--Bishop Creighton