To care for wisdom and truth and improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honour and reputation.
获得智慧,寻求真理,并使心灵美好,远比追求金钱、荣誉和名声好得多。
Everybody has to lay the foundations of his success by study and hard work.
书山有路勤为径,学海无涯苦作舟。
The storehouse of wisdom is stocked with proverbs.
智慧的仓库里储满箴言。
As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is the mark of little minds to use many words to say nothing.
大智者寥寥数语,即能达意,寡智者口若悬河,仍言之无物。
Words without ideas are like sails without wind.
言之无物如有帆无风。
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
有想象力而无学问的人,等于有翅无脚。
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
人没有想象力,犹如天文台没有望远镜。
Learning is the light that leads into everything lovely.
学识是照亮各种美好事物的明灯。
Knowledge makes humble; ignorance makes proud.
知识使人谦逊;无知使人傲慢。
There is only one good,that is knowledge;there is only one evil,that is ignorance.
最有益的是知识,最有害的是无知。
To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know,that is true knowledge.
真知就是知道自己懂什么和不懂什么。
A man without knowledge is like a house without a foundation.
人没有知识犹如房子没有地基。
He who knows most knows best how little he knows.
知识愈多愈了解自己懂得太少。
Our life has a limit,but knowledge is without limit.
生命有限,知识无涯。
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light;to be proud of virtue is to poison yourself with the antidote.
以有知识而自傲是不懂知识;以有美德而自傲是败坏美德。
Our best thought comes from others.
我们最好的思想来源于他人。
Learning is a sceptre to some,a bauble to others.
学识对某些人是权力的象征,对另一些人是漂亮的装饰品。
Knowledge comes from experience alone.
知识只能来自经验。
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
浅薄的学问是一种危险的事情。
Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
言词是人类最有效的药物。
A book that remains shut is but a block.
有书而不读它只不过是块木头。
To know a little less and understand a little more is our greatest need.
少知道一点,多理解一点是我们最大的需要。一个十分渴望读书的人和一个累了想找本书看的人是大不相同的。
Capacity without education is pitiful;education without capacity is thrown away.
有才干缺教育令人可惜;有教育缺才干被人抛弃。
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
一分学问,要辅以十分常识才能应用。
Learning is the eye of the mind.
学识是心灵的眼睛。
Without learning without eyes.
没有学识就没有眼力。
Better unlearned than ill'l earned.
学到坏知识不如没有知识。
A learned man is not learned in everything.
有学问的人并非什么都懂。
Reading makes a full man,conference a ready man,and writing an exact man.
读书可使人成为完人,谈话可使人成为敏捷的人,而写作则可造就准确的人。
Not one student in thousand breaks down from overwork.
在千名学生中从来不曾有一个是由于功课太重而垮了的。
They assume most who they know the least.
知道得最少的人最傲慢。
The three foundations of learning:seeing much,suffering much,and studying much.
求学的三个基本条件是:多观察,多吃苦,多研究。
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
学而不思,犹如食而不化。
The fields were his study.Nature was his book.
田野是他的书斋,自然是他的书本。
There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants go read a book,and the tired man who wants a book to read.
一个热心求知者需要去读一本书,一个懒惰的人需要一本书来读读,这两种人之间有很大的区别。
All truths are not to be told.
并不是所有的真理都是可以用言语道破的。
A book remains shut is but a block.
一本书留着不读,那么这本书就成了一块木头。
Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
爱永远都是知识的开始,就像火是光的开始一样。
Life being very short,and the quiet house of it few;we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
生命是短暂的,而其中宁静的时候更少,所以我们不应浪费时间去读那些无价值的书。
Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist.
只有理论知识,而没有经过亲自实践的艺术家只能说是半个艺术家。
Knowledge is power.
知识就是力量。
Knowledge makes humble;ignorance makes proud.
知识使人谦虚,无知使人骄傲。
Men of few words are the best men.
沉默寡言的人为智者。
With a good book in our hands we need never be lonely.Whether the characters are taken from real life or are purely imaginary,they may become our companions and friends.
我们手中有了好书就决不会感到孤独。不论描写的人物取自实际生活或者纯属虚构,他们都可以成为我们的伴侣和朋友。
Whatever may be our main purpose in reading,our contact with good books should never fail to give us enjoyment and satisfaction.
不管我们读书的主要目的是什么,读好书一定能使我们获得享受和满足。
You can learn from everyone.
你可以向每一个人学习。
From good reading we can derive pleasure,friendship,experience,and instruction.
读好书,我们可以从中得到乐趣、友谊、经验和教诲。
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
天才是百分之一的灵感加上百分之九十九的汗水。
Greatest genius often lies concealed.
最伟大的天才往往隐而不露。
You cant do two things at one time.
一心不可二用。
Superstition sets the whole world in flames;philosophy quenches them.
迷信把整个世界推入火海,哲学则熄灭火焰。
Some books are to be tasted,others to be swallowed,and some few to be chewed and digested;that is,some books are to be read in parts;others to be read but not curiously;and some few to be read wholly,and with diligence and attention.
有些书要品尝,有些书要概览,少数书要仔细钻研理解。换句话说,只读一些书的某些部分,其他的书只可读但不用好奇地去读,而只有少量的书可全神贯注勤奋完整地攻读。
Independent thinking is an absolute necessity in study.
独立思考是绝对必需的。
I say little but I think the more.
少说话、多思考。
He that nothing questions,nothing learns.
不提问题的人,是什么也学不到的。
Work and Struggle
工作与奋斗
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.
个人的工作中孕育着推动整个人类前进的活力。
One volunteer is better than ten forced men.
一个志愿人员胜过十个被迫工作的人。
If you have a job without any aggravations,you dont have a job.
如果你的工作一点都不使你恼火,那就不能算是有工作。
One wonderful thing about a vacation is that it makes you feel good enough to go back to work and poor enough so that you have to.
休假的妙处是既使你身心舒畅,乐意回去工作,又使你不名一文,不得不回去工作。
Make it a point to do something every day that you dont want to do.This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
坚持每天做一点不愿意做的事。这是养成乐意尽职的金科玉律。
The path of duty is the way to glory.
责任的道路是通往荣誉的道路。
The more we dot,the more we can do.the more busy we are,the more leisure we have.
事越做越能做,人越忙越有空。
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
多做事的捷径是每次只做一件事。
I had rather do and not promise, than promise and not do.
宁可多做事、少许诺,不可多许诺而不做事。
In every beginning think of the end.
凡事一开始就要想到结果。
Never was a good work done without great effort.
干好工作绝非轻而易举。
Without method little can be done to any good purpose.
没有方法,什么也做不成。
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts;but if he will be content to begin with doubts,he shall end in certainties.
如果一个人以肯定的立论开始,他必将以各种怀疑而终止;但如果他宁愿以怀疑而开始,他必将以肯定的结论终止。