●If you don t learn to think when you are young, you may never learn. ----------Thomas Edison , American inventor 如果你年轻时没有学会思考,那就永远学不会思考。 -------美国发明家 爱迪生 . T.
●The more you study, the more you will find yourself ignorant. -------Rene Descartes, French philosopher and mathematician 学,然后知不足。 -----法国哲学家、数学家 笛卡尔 . R.
● Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping. -----------JULIUS C.HARE AND AUGUSTUS HARE 人生中百分之五十的失败均在于起跳的同时勒住了马。
● Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. ------LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters to His Son 青年人大多自以为才智过人,就如同醉汉总觉得自已清醒无比。
● Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. --------NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV, comment made to American reporters 哪儿的政治家都一样,他们甚至可以在根本没有河的地方承诺建造一座桥。
● When angry, count ten before you speak. if very angry, an hundred. ---------THOMAS JEFFERSON, “A Decalogue of Carons for observation in practical life” 生气时,在开口说话前,先从1数到10;特别生气时,就数到100。
● If you steal from one auther, it’s plagiarism(剽窃). if you steal from many,it’s research. -------------WILSON MIZNER 如果你从一个作家那儿抄袭,那叫做剽窃;如果你从许多作家那儿抄袭,那就叫研究。