英文諺語薈萃之知識篇

李大秋

1. Knowledge is power, that knowledge is safety, that knowledge is happiness.

—Thomas Jefferson

知識就是力量，知識就是安全，知識就是幸福。

——杰斐遜

2. There are only two powers in the world, the sword and the pen, and in the end the former is always conquered by the latter.

—Bonaparte Napoleon

世界上有兩種力量：劍和筆；而其結果，后者總是戰勝前者。

——拿破侖

3. You can become a communist only when you enrich your mind with knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

—V. I. Lenin

只有用人類創造的全部知識財富來豐富自己的頭腦，才能成為共產主義者。

——列寧

4. Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it when young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

—Chesterfield

學問可使人年老時能舒適地隱退和有所寄托；但如果年輕時不努力耕耘，年老時就得不到它的庇護。

——切斯特菲爾德

5. Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much, to know the right spot is everything.

—Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

知識本身并不重要，重要的是知道知識的來龍去脈，而知道如何運用知識就更為重要。

——霍夫曼斯塔爾

6. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtitle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.

—Francis Bacon

歷史使人聰穎；詩句使人詼諧；數學使人精確；自然哲學使人深邃；道德使人莊重；邏輯和修辭使人善辯。

——培根

7. A learned man who does not restrain his passions is like a blind man holding a torch; he guides others but not himself.

—Nazrul Islam

學者若不能律己，猶如盲人手持火炬；他只能引導別人，而不能引導自己。

——伊斯拉姆

8. Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

—Samuel Johnson

知識有兩種：我們通曉某一學科，或者我們知道到哪里去尋找有關某一科目的知識。

——約翰遜

9. If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

—Susannek K. Langer

要想獲得新知識，就必須提出大量的新問題。

——蘭格

10. The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

—Cecil

獲得知識的第一步是要知道自己無知。

——塞西爾