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英语名人名言: Wisdom 智慧
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  • Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

    Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), 1978

    The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics1 are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

    Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

    Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

    Cullen Hightower

    Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

    Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011

    As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

    Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales 1655

    One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

    Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

    The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

    George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

    The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine2 that age brings wisdom.

    H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

    Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

    Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes

    Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

    Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)

    Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

    James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791

    Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

    John Patrick, The Teahouse of the August moon, Act I, scene I, 1957

    That which seems the height of absurdity3 in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

    John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)

    It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err4.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

    We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

    Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

    To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

    Marilyn vos Savant

    It is not white hair that engenders5 wisdom.

    Menander (342 BC - 292 BC), Unidentified fragment

    Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

    Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008

    Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

    Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria

    Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

    Robbie Gass

    Ask counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

    Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Of Great Place, 1625

    Wisdom outweighs6 any wealth.

    Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone

    No man is wise enough by himself.

    Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Miles Gloriosus

    Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

    Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Trinummus

    A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

    Unknown

    Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible7 of proof, is its own proof.

    Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

    Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

    William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)

    The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

    William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "As You Like It", Act 5 scene 1

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    1 fanatics [fə'nætɪks] b39691a04ddffdf6b4b620155fcc8d78   第8级
    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?
    2 doctrine [ˈdɒktrɪn] Pkszt   第7级
    n.教义;主义;学说
    参考例句:
    • He was impelled to proclaim his doctrine. 他不得不宣扬他的教义。
    • The council met to consider changes to doctrine. 宗教议会开会考虑更改教义。
    3 absurdity [əb'sɜ:dətɪ] dIQyU   第10级
    n.荒谬,愚蠢;谬论
    参考例句:
    • The proposal borders upon the absurdity. 这提议近乎荒谬。
    • The absurdity of the situation made everyone laugh. 情况的荒谬可笑使每个人都笑了。
    4 err [ɜ:(r)] 2izzk   第10级
    vi.犯错误,出差错
    参考例句:
    • He did not err by a hair's breadth in his calculation. 他的计算结果一丝不差。
    • The arrows err not from their aim. 箭无虚发。
    5 engenders [enˈdʒendəz] b377f73dea8df557b6f4fba57541c7c8   第9级
    v.产生(某形势或状况),造成,引起( engender的第三人称单数 )
    参考例句:
    • Sympathy often engenders love. 同情常常产生爱情。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
    • Some people believe poverty engenders crime. 有人认为贫困生罪恶。 来自辞典例句
    6 outweighs [aʊtˈweɪz] 62d9db1e030eaef3a86321f2e4a5724d   第8级
    v.在重量上超过( outweigh的第三人称单数 );在重要性或价值方面超过
    参考例句:
    • Her need to save money outweighs her desire to spend it on fun. 她省钱的需要比她花钱娱乐的愿望更重要。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    • Its clarity in algebraic and analytical operations far outweighs any drawbacks. 文化代数和解析运算中的清晰性远远胜过任何缺点。 来自辞典例句
    7 susceptible [səˈseptəbl] 4rrw7   第7级
    adj.过敏的,敏感的;易动感情的,易受感动的
    参考例句:
    • Children are more susceptible than adults. 孩子比成人易受感动。
    • We are all susceptible to advertising. 我们都易受广告的影响。

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