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Bertrand Russell quotes
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he
unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.




All movements go too far.


Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.


Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.


I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't
wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.


I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.


If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and
unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is
offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it
even on the slightest evidence.


If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness
more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.


In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have
long taken for granted.


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In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and
often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.


It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence
which could support this.


It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with
a car that won't go.


Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

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Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.


Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.


Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than
death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to
privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is
not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.


No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.


Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a
clever man.


Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no
effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils;
it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the
habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a
leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.


Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.


Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.


So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.


The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be
happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.


The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a
solution.


The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means
to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.


The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures
themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.


The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he
plays golf.


The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

经验篇

All is but lip-wisdom that wants experience. (Philip Sideney, British satesman)
凡是没有实际经验的，都只是口头智慧。
(
英国政治家

锡得尼

D .)

Expericence is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. (Law Vernon,
British writer)
经验是一位先行测试然后才授课严厉的教师。
(
英国作家

弗农
. L.)

Experience
is
not
interesting
till
it
begins
to
repeat
itself,
in
fact,
till
it
does
that
,it
hardly
is
experience. (Elizabeth Bowen, British novelist)
经验直到自我重复时才变得有意义，
事实上，
直到那时才算得上 经验。
(
英国小说家

鲍恩

E.)

Expericence
is
not
what
happens
to
a
man;
it
is
what
a
man
does
with
what
happens
to
him.
(Aldous Leonard Huxley, American writer)
经验不会从天而降；经验只有通过实践才能获得。
(
美国作家

郝胥黎
.A.L.)

Experience is the child of thought , and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from
books. (Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman)
经验是思想之子，思想是行动之子，了解他人不可以书本为据。
(
英国政治家

迪斯雷利

B .)

Experience is the na me give their mistakes. (Oscar Wilde, British playwriter and poet)
经验是每个人为其错误寻找的代名词。
(
英国剧作家、诗人

王尔德

O.)

Experience
is
what
you
get
when
you
don't
get
what
you
want.
(Dan
Stanfort,
American
brsinessman)
经验是当你没得到想得到之物时所得到的东西。
(
美国实业家

斯坦福。
D.)

Expreience keeps
a dear
school,
yet
fools
will
learn
in
no
other.
(Benjamin
Franklin,
Americna
president)
经验始终是收费高的学校，然而，笨汉非进此学校不可。
(
美国总统

富兰克林

B )

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Experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their
tongues. (Bendict de spinoza, Dutch philosopher)
经验给我们太多的教训，告诉我们人类最难管制

的东西，莫过于自己的舌头。
(
荷兰哲学家

斯宾诺沙

B)

Experience never misleads; what you are missed by is only your judgement, and this misleads you
by
anticipating
results
from
experience
of
a
kind
that
is
not
produced
by
your
experements.
(Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian painter)
经验永远不会对你做错误的引导；
把你引导错的只是你自 己的判断，
而你的判断之所以对你
发生误导的作用，乃是由于它根据那种并非借着实验而产生的 经验来预料的结果。
(
意大利
画家

达芬奇
)

Experience
without
learning
is
better
than
learning
without
excperi-ence.
(Bertuand
Russell,
British philosopher and mathematician)
有经验而无学问胜于有学问而无经验。
(
英国哲学家、数学家

罗素
.B.)

I have but one lamp wait which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of
no way of judging of the future but by the past. (Patrick Henry, Americna statesman)
我只拿一盏灯来指引我的脚步，
而那盏灯就是经验，
对于未来 ，
我只是能以过去来判断。
(
美
国政治家

享利
.P.)

Mistakes are an essential part of education. (Bertrand Russell, Bdritish philosopher)
从错误中吸取教训是教育极为重要的一部分。
(
英国哲学家

罗素

. B .)

Neither beliver nor reject anything, because any other person has rejected of believed it. Heaven
has given you a mind for judging truth and error, Use it. (Thomas Jefferson, American president)
不要因为别的人 相信或否定了什么东西，
你也就去相信它或否定它。
上帝赠予你一个用来判
断真理和谬 误的头脑。那你就去运用它吧
/ (
美国总统

杰斐逊
.T.)

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. (James Russell Lowell, British
Poet and critic)
一次痛苦的经验抵得上千百次的告诫。
(
英国诗人、批评家

洛威尔

.J. R .)

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. (Samuel Smiles, British writer)
实用的知识只有通过亲身体验才能学到。
(
英国作家

斯迈尔斯
. S .)

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. (Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer)
谚语是从长期经验中获得的短句。
(
班牙作家

塞万提斯
.M.)

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The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those
who are experienced have feeble imaginations. (Alfred North Whitehead, British philosopher and
nathematician)
世界的悲剧就在于有想象力又缺乏经验，而有经验的人又缺乏 想象力。
(
英国哲学家、数学
家

怀特海
.A . N.)

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. (Grorge Santayana, Spain-born
American philosopher and poet)
教育之艰苦在于从意念中获得经验。
(
西班牙裔美国哲学家、诗人

桑塔亚那
.G.)

The
greatest
lesson
in
life
is
to
know
that
even
fools
are
right
sometimes.
(Winston
Churchill.
British statesman)
傻瓜有时候也是对的。
(
英国政治家

丘吉尔

.W.)

To make good use of life one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old
age the vigor of youth. (Stanislars I, Polish king)
青年而有老年之经验，老年而有青年之朝 气，就能使人生发挥更大的作用。
(
波兰国王

斯坦
尼劳斯一世
)

To most men , experience is like the stern light of a ship which il-luminates only the track it has
passed. (Samuel Tylor Coleridge, British poet)
对于大多数人，
经验像是一艘船上的尾灯，
只照亮船驶过的航道。
(
英国诗人

柯勒津治
. S .T .)

Too much experience is a dangerous thing. (Oscar Wilde, British dramatist)
经验过多反而危险。
(
英国剧作家

王尔德
. O.)

We know nothing of what will happen in future , but by the analogy of past experience. (Abraham
Lincoln , American president)
除了凭着对过去的经验加以类推之外，我们对今后的事一无所知。
(
美国总统

林肯
. A .)

英语名言
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.



名称有什么关系呢？玫瑰不叫玫瑰，依然芳香如故。
——
Shakespeare


There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.



崇高与荒谬仅一步之遥。
——
Napoleon


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