1.I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious.
~Albert Einstein
我沒有特別的天份,祇是有強烈的好奇心。
2.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.
~Bertrand Arthur William Russell
在一切事物中,偶爾對所謂理所當然之事,投以懷疑的眼神,這乃是一種正確的作法。
3.The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
~Dorothy Parker (attributed)
好奇心是沈悶的解藥,而好奇心本身卻無可救藥。
4.What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
~Walter Pater
我們應當滿懷好奇心,不斷地去檢驗那些新的見解,並尋求新的感受。
5.Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
~William Wirt
任何題目所引發的好奇心,應即時抓住以解決我們的疑問;若將好奇心捨去,一切求知慾將遠離,而我們也將永遠地無知。
http://aflc.must.edu.tw/fq/fq9.htm
1.Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
~Anonymous
嫉妒是唯一不能替吾人帶來樂趣之人格缺點。
2.Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
~Josh Billings
愛借由望遠鏡而遠視,嫉妒卻借由顯微鏡而短視。
3.The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
~Winston Churchill
樂觀者於艱險中見著機會,悲觀者於機會中見著艱險。
4.Minds are like parachutes –they only function when open.
~Thomas Dewar
心如大傘,不張無以為用。
5.Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
~Libbie Fudim
愛我或恨我,但不可漠視我。
http://aflc.must.edu.tw/fq/fq13.htm
1. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
~Mark Twain (1835-1910)
古典文學人人過去都想讀,而現在卻沒有人真正想去讀。
2. A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
~Anonymous
評論者是少了根腿而卻要教人跑步的指導者。
3. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
~G. K Chesterton
好的小說只是述說著英雄的事蹟,而拙劣的小說卻透露其作者的事情。
4. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ~Dean Acheson
備忘錄不是寫來告訴讀者的,而是用來保護作者的。
5. A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
~Paul Valery(1871-1945)
詩永遠無法完成,只有被放棄。
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1.A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
~John Keats
美的事物是永恆的快樂。
2.Beauty awakens the soul to act .
~Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
美喚醒了靈魂,使它動起來。
3.Bread feeds the body , indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.
~The Prophet Mohammad
麵包滋養著身體,而花兒卻滋潤了我們的心靈。
4. “I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters’”.
~William Butler Yeats
我聽到以前的人說過,一切美的東西將消逝如那流水。
5.The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
~John Cage
當我覺得某一個東西不美的時候,我必自問為何它不美了。思考之後,卻找不出理由。
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