英文谚语荟萃之知识篇

李大秋

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

—Thomas Jefferson

知识就是力量，知识就是安全，知识就是幸福。

——杰斐逊

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

世界上有两种力量：剑和笔；而其结果，后者总是战胜前者。

——拿破仑

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

—V. I. Lenin

只有用人类创造的全部知识财富来丰富自己的头脑，才能成为共产主义者。

——列宁

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

学问可使人年老时能舒适地隐退和有所寄托；但如果年轻时不努力耕耘，年老时就得不到它的庇护。

——切斯特菲尔德

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

—Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

知识本身并不重要，重要的是知道知识的来龙去脉，而知道如何运用知识就更为重要。

——霍夫曼斯塔尔

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

—Francis Bacon

历史使人聪颖；诗句使人诙谐；数学使人精确；自然哲学使人深邃；道德使人庄重；逻辑和修辞使人善辩。

——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

学者若不能律己，犹如盲人手持火炬；他只能引导别人，而不能引导自己。

——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

知識有两种：我们通晓某一学科，或者我们知道到哪里去寻找有关某一科目的知识。

——约翰逊

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

—Susannek K. Langer

要想获得新知识，就必须提出大量的新问题。

——兰格

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

—Cecil

获得知识的第一步是要知道自己无知。

——塞西尔