Knowledge/Wisdom[英语名人名言]

时间：2007-05-14 08:15:46

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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
-- Anonymous1

 

Know her mind and you can have her body, know her heart and you have her soul.
-- Anonymous

 

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
-- Josh Billings

 

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
-- Lord Chesterfield

 

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
-- Winston Churchill

 

A little nonsense now and then is relished2 by the wisest men.
-- Roald Dahl

 

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
-- The Doctor, Timewyrm: Genesys, author, John Peel

 

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments3 give lustre4, and many more people see than weigh.
-- Earl of Chesterfield

 

Great spirits have always found violent opposition5 from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary6 prejudices but honestly and courageously7 uses his intelligence.
-- Albert Einstein

 

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.
-- Albert Einstein

 

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein

 

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
-- Albert Einstein

 

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
-- Albert Einstein

 

The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogren and stupidity.
-- Harlan Ellison

 

I hate quotations8. Tell me what you know.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
-- Engineer's Motto

 

We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry.
-- English Proverb

 

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
-- Euripides

 

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared9 your body with clue musk10 and did the clue mating dance.
-- Edward Flaherty

 

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
-- Victor Hugo

 

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
-- Thomas Henry Huxley

 

Irrationally11 held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley

 

In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll

 

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
-- William James

 

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
-- William James

 

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson

 

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating12 than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright13 rejection14.
-- Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham City Jail, 1963

 

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce15 on it earlier.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec

 

There's a fine line between genius and insanity16. I have erased17 this line.
-- Oscar Levant

 

We are all either fools or undiscovered geniuses.
-- Bonnie Lin

 

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Abraham Lincoln

 

If you once forfeit18 the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain19 their respect and esteem20. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
-- Abraham Lincoln

 

Know thyself.
-- Linnaeus

 

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
-- Konrad Lorenz

 

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.
-- Michael Garrett Marino

 

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
-- Judith Martin, "Miss Manners" columnist21 and author

 

We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge.
-- John Naisbilt

 

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble22 or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
-- Isaac Newton, Brewster's Memoirs23 of Newton. Vol. ii. Chap. xxvii.

 

You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.
-- Dorothy Parker

 

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
-- Pogo, character in "Pogo," comic strip by Walt Kelly

 

Look alive. Here comes a buzzard.
-- Pogo, character in "Pogo," comic strip by Walt Kelly

 

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone24.
-- Lady Stella Reading

 

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics25 are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell

 

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
-- Carl Sagan

 

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
-- George Bernard Shaw

 

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
-- George Bernard Shaw

 

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
-- Gertrude Stein

 

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for.
-- Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

 

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
-- Johnathan Swift

 

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 

Why is it that wherever I go, the resident idiot heads straight for me?
-- Gwynn Thomas

 

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
-- James Thurber

 

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
-- Henrik Tikkanen

 

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly26. I said, "I don't know."
-- Mark Twain

 

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence27 never to practice either of them.
-- Mark Twain

 

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
-- Mark Twain

 

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
-- Voltaire

 

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment28 of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

 

The truth is more important than the facts.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

 

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

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1 anonymous lM2yp     
adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的
参考例句：
  • Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
  • The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。
2 relished c700682884b4734d455673bc9e66a90c     
v.欣赏( relish的过去式和过去分词 )；从…获得乐趣；渴望
参考例句：
  • The chaplain relished the privacy and isolation of his verdant surroundings. 牧师十分欣赏他那苍翠的环境所具有的幽雅恬静，与世隔绝的气氛。 来自辞典例句
  • Dalleson relished the first portion of the work before him. 达尔生对眼前这工作的前半部分满有兴趣。 来自辞典例句
3 accomplishments 1c15077db46e4d6425b6f78720939d54     
n.造诣；完成( accomplishment的名词复数 )；技能；成绩；成就
参考例句：
  • It was one of the President's greatest accomplishments. 那是总统最伟大的成就之一。
  • Among her accomplishments were sewing,cooking,playing the piano and dancing. 她的才能包括缝纫、烹调、弹钢琴和跳舞。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
4 lustre hAhxg     
n.光亮，光泽；荣誉
参考例句：
  • The sun was shining with uncommon lustre.太阳放射出异常的光彩。
  • A good name keeps its lustre in the dark.一个好的名誉在黑暗中也保持它的光辉。
5 opposition eIUxU     
n.反对，敌对
参考例句：
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
6 hereditary fQJzF     
adj.遗传的，遗传性的，可继承的，世袭的
参考例句：
  • The Queen of England is a hereditary ruler.英国女王是世袭的统治者。
  • In men,hair loss is hereditary.男性脱发属于遗传。
7 courageously wvzz8b     
ad.勇敢地，无畏地
参考例句：
  • Under the correct leadership of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the army and civilians in flooded areas fought the floods courageously, reducing the losses to the minimum. 在中共中央、国务院的正确领导下，灾区广大军民奋勇抗洪，把灾害的损失减少到了最低限度。
  • He fought death courageously though his life was draining away. 他虽然生命垂危，但仍然勇敢地与死亡作斗争。
8 quotations c7bd2cdafc6bfb4ee820fb524009ec5b     
n.引用( quotation的名词复数 )；[商业]行情（报告）；（货物或股票的）市价；时价
参考例句：
  • The insurance company requires three quotations for repairs to the car. 保险公司要修理这辆汽车的三家修理厂的报价单。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • These quotations cannot readily be traced to their sources. 这些引语很难查出出自何处。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
9 smeared c767e97773b70cc726f08526efd20e83     
弄脏； 玷污； 涂抹； 擦上
参考例句：
  • The children had smeared mud on the walls. 那几个孩子往墙上抹了泥巴。
  • A few words were smeared. 有写字被涂模糊了。
10 musk v6pzO     
n.麝香, 能发出麝香的各种各样的植物，香猫
参考例句：
  • Musk is used for perfume and stimulant.麝香可以用作香料和兴奋剂。
  • She scented her clothes with musk.她用麝香使衣服充满了香味。
11 irrationally Iq5zQ5     
ad.不理性地
参考例句：
  • They reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russian power. 他们对俄军的挑衅做出了很不理智的反应。
  • The market is irrationally, right? 市场的走势是不是有点失去了理性？
12 frustrating is9z54     
adj.产生挫折的，使人沮丧的，令人泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的现在分词 )；挫败；使受挫折；令人沮丧
参考例句：
  • It's frustrating to have to wait so long. 要等这么长时间，真令人懊恼。
  • It was a demeaning and ultimately frustrating experience. 那是一次有失颜面并且令人沮丧至极的经历。 来自《简明英汉词典》
13 outright Qj7yY     
adv.坦率地；彻底地；立即；adj.无疑的；彻底的
参考例句：
  • If you have a complaint you should tell me outright.如果你有不满意的事，你应该直率地对我说。
  • You should persuade her to marry you outright.你应该彻底劝服她嫁给你。
14 rejection FVpxp     
n.拒绝，被拒，抛弃，被弃
参考例句：
  • He decided not to approach her for fear of rejection.他因怕遭拒绝决定不再去找她。
  • The rejection plunged her into the dark depths of despair.遭到拒绝使她陷入了绝望的深渊。
15 pounce 4uAyU     
n.猛扑；v.猛扑，突然袭击，欣然同意
参考例句：
  • Why do you pounce on every single thing I say?干吗我说的每句话你都要找麻烦？
  • We saw the tiger about to pounce on the goat.我们看见老虎要向那只山羊扑过去。
16 insanity H6xxf     
n.疯狂，精神错乱；极端的愚蠢，荒唐
参考例句：
  • In his defense he alleged temporary insanity.他伪称一时精神错乱，为自己辩解。
  • He remained in his cell,and this visit only increased the belief in his insanity.他依旧还是住在他的地牢里，这次视察只是更加使人相信他是个疯子了。
17 erased f4adee3fff79c6ddad5b2e45f730006a     
v.擦掉( erase的过去式和过去分词 )；抹去；清除
参考例句：
  • He erased the wrong answer and wrote in the right one. 他擦去了错误答案，写上了正确答案。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He removed the dogmatism from politics; he erased the party line. 他根除了政治中的教条主义，消除了政党界限。 来自《简明英汉词典》
18 forfeit YzCyA     
vt.丧失；n.罚金，罚款，没收物
参考例句：
  • If you continue to tell lies,you will forfeit the good opinion of everyone.你如果继续撒谎，就会失掉大家对你的好感。
  • Please pay for the forfeit before you borrow book.在你借书之前请先付清罚款。
19 regain YkYzPd     
vt.重新获得，收复，恢复
参考例句：
  • He is making a bid to regain his World No.1 ranking.他正为重登世界排名第一位而努力。
  • The government is desperate to regain credibility with the public.政府急于重新获取公众的信任。
20 esteem imhyZ     
n.尊敬，尊重；vt.尊重，敬重；把…看作
参考例句：
  • I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
  • The veteran worker ranks high in public love and esteem.那位老工人深受大伙的爱戴。
21 columnist XwwzUQ     
n.专栏作家
参考例句：
  • The host was interviewing a local columnist.节目主持人正在同一位当地的专栏作家交谈。
  • She's a columnist for USA Today.她是《今日美国报》的专栏作家。
22 pebble c3Rzo     
n.卵石，小圆石
参考例句：
  • The bird mistook the pebble for egg and tried to hatch it.这只鸟错把卵石当蛋，想去孵它。
  • The pebble made a ripple on the surface of the lake.石子在湖面上激起一个涟漪。
23 memoirs f752e432fe1fefb99ab15f6983cd506c     
n.回忆录；回忆录传( mem,自oir的名词复数)
参考例句：
  • Her memoirs were ghostwritten. 她的回忆录是由别人代写的。
  • I watched a trailer for the screenplay of his memoirs. 我看过以他的回忆录改编成电影的预告片。 来自《简明英汉词典》
24 undone JfJz6l     
a.未做完的，未完成的
参考例句：
  • He left nothing undone that needed attention.所有需要注意的事他都注意到了。
25 fanatics b39691a04ddffdf6b4b620155fcc8d78     
狂热者，入迷者( fanatic的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • The heathen temple was torn down by a crowd of religions fanatics. 异教徒的神殿被一群宗教狂热分子拆除了。
  • Placing nukes in the hands of baby-faced fanatics? 把核弹交给一些宗教狂热者手里？
26 promptly LRMxm     
adv.及时地，敏捷地
参考例句：
  • He paid the money back promptly.他立即还了钱。
  • She promptly seized the opportunity his absence gave her.她立即抓住了因他不在场给她创造的机会。
27 prudence 9isyI     
n.谨慎，精明，节俭
参考例句：
  • A lack of prudence may lead to financial problems.不够谨慎可能会导致财政上出现问题。
  • The happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.幸运者都把他们的成功归因于谨慎或功德。
28 resentment 4sgyv     
n.怨愤，忿恨
参考例句：
  • All her feelings of resentment just came pouring out.她一股脑儿倾吐出所有的怨恨。
  • She cherished a deep resentment under the rose towards her employer.她暗中对她的雇主怀恨在心。

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