生命的名言警句摘抄
- Theodore Rubin
Madness is the result not of uncertainty but of certainty.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
- Rene Descartes
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees wth your own reason and your own common sense.
- Buddha
That "change makes us uncomfortable" is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and underconsidered half-truths around.... [I]t is not change by itself that makes us uncomfortable; it is not even change that involves taking on something very difficult. Rather, it is change that leaves us feeling defenseless before the dangers we "know" to be present that causes us anxiety. (from Immunity to Change
- Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
- Richard Feynman
We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.
- Sam Nunn
When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect -- but do not believe him. Never put your trust into anything but your own intellect. Your elder, no matter whether he has gray hair or has lost his hair, no matter whether he is a Nobel laureate -- may be wrong. The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be skeptical -- always think for yourself.
- Linus Pauling
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it's based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.
- Martha Nussbaum
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are so confident while the intelligent are full of doubt.
- Bertrand Russell
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
- Anatole France
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy
- Francis of Assisi
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
- Peter Ustinov
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
- Frank Herbert
Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.
- Mark Twain
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
- John Naisbitt
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
- Havelock Ellis
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
- Henri Bergson
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
- David Hume
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi
As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know.
- Donald Rumsfeld
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.
- Jane Addams
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of douts of my own.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only do what your heart tells you.
- Princess Diana
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
- G. K. Chesterton
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
- James Baldwin
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our distrust is very expensive.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.
- John A. Hutchinson
There are no creeds in mathematics.
- Peter F. Drucker
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
- Pierre Abelard
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
- Victor Frankl
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.
- Virginia Woolf
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
- Erich Fromm
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
- Carl Sagan
To deny, to believe, and to doubt absolutely -- this is for man what running is for a horse.
- Blaise Pascal