Wise Words

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

知識好比金錢：要流通才會有價值，而且在流通過程中，它的數量會增加，價值也可望提升。

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

口才是一幅以思想繪製的畫。

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

生命是一張巨幅畫布，而你應該恣意揮灑所有色彩。

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

傳統唯有不斷更新才得以延續。

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

事實對科學家來說就是空氣，少了它你就無法翱翔。

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

宇宙間沒有多餘的碎塊，每個人都有預定的位置，每一片拼塊都必能容身於天地間構成的大拼圖。

It is not titles that make men illustrious, but men who make titles illustrious.

不是頭銜讓人不同凡響，而是人讓頭銜不同凡響。

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

不信人者，人恆不信之。

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act Action will delineate and define you.

欲知自己是何許人物？別坐而問，請起而行！行動會勾勒並定義你的為人。

The best of prophets of the future is the past.

最能預知未來的是過去。

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

我並未失敗，我只不過發現了一萬種行不通的方法。

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

何謂言論自由？若沒有冒犯的自由，言論自由也不復存在。

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

混沌常孕育生命，而秩序常衍生習慣。

When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

與他人一同旅行時，記得早晨喝咖啡時服用大量的耐心與包容。

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

文明是一種風潮，而非一時的狀態； 是一趟航行，而非靠岸。

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

未來的帝國是思想的帝國。

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

笑，是兩個人之間最短的距離。

The world is more malleable than you think, and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

這世界比你想的更有可塑性，而且正等著你敲打成形。

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

只要誠實以告就不會糊塗；如此你就不必刻意記住自己說過什麼，也永遠不會忘記自己說過什麼。

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

歲末既非結束也非開始，而是帶著經驗所傳承的智慧，繼續向前。

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

我們並非年年老化，而是逐日更新。

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

善意是失聰者聽得見、失明者看得見的語言。

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

你的態度，而非你的天賦，決定你的高度。

Think like a wise man, but communicate in the language of the people.

以智者的方式思考，以一般人的語言溝通。

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

預測未來的最佳方式就是創造未來。

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

勇氣並非無所畏懼，而是能判斷有比恐懼更重要的事。

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

所謂人格，就是當你已一無所有時最後仍有的堅持。

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

才華係天賦，應謙虛；名氣係人賦，應感激；高傲係自賦，應當心。

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

人生百分之十取決於你的遭遇，百分之九十取決於你對遭遇的因應。

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

在尋求問題的答案但卻遍尋不著的過程中所學習到的，比從答案本身獲得的還要豐富。