托马斯·索维尔的20句名人名言哲理格言警句语录

Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.

想法到处都是，但知识非常稀缺。

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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

一个人需要相当的知识才能意识到自己的无知程度。

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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

夸夸其谈者通常要比身体力行者显得更加语有伦次，因为话语才是他们的专长。

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When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

当人们想要得到根本不可得到的东西时，只有谎言者才能满足他们。

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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

对于每一位专家，都会有一个同等的或者完全相反的专家。但对于每一个事实，并不一定就有一个同等的或者相反的事实存在。

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If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.

如果事实、逻辑和科学过程都只是随意的“社会化构建出来的”说辞，那么我们能够得到的就只是某种共识--具体而言，也就是同伴群体中的共识，那种青春期的人们或者知识界很多人当中更愿意信奉的共识。

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Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

事实并不能自证清白。它们支持或者反对不同的理论。而脱离理论或者信念的事实不过是孤立的好奇心而已。

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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

讲述完全真相的方法只有两种：匿名或者死后。

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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

如果你想要帮助别人，告诉他们真相。如果你想帮助自己，告诉他们他们想听的。

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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

将决策交给那些对决策错误并不承担任何代价的人——很难想象出一个比这样做更加愚蠢和危险的做法了。

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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

最根本的问题不是什么最好，而是谁来决定什么是最好。

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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.

生活并不会问我们想要什么。它给我们提供一些选择。

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The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

铁蛋儿的问题，不是他不识字，也不是他不会思考，而是他不知道什么是思考，并且将其与感觉相混淆。

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Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

错误可以被关注事实者纠正，但教条将不会被那些囿于某种信念的人纠正。

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One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.

入门统计学课本一开始讲的几个要点之一，就是相关性不是因果性。这也是最先被忘记的要点之一。

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People who decry the fact that businesses are in business "just to make money" seldom understand the implications of what they are saying. You make money by doing what other people want, not what you want.

那些诟病做生意“只是为了赚钱”的人通常并不理解其所言之含义。你之所以赚钱，是通过做别人想要的东西，而不是做自己想要的。

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Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

价格之重要，并不在于金钱是至高无上的。在零星分散的信息必须得以协调的巨型社会中，价格乃是快速而有效的信息传导。

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A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

短缺乃是一种符号，它意味着价格被人为地保持在低于供求双方可以自由行事时的水平。

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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

经济学的第一课是稀缺：从来没有足够的任何一种东西能够满足所有人对其需要。政治学的第一课是摒弃经济学的第一课。

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当错误的代价由别人承担时，犯错是容易的，坚持错误也很容易。

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