默而识之，学而不厌，诲人不倦，何有于我哉。

【译文】将知识默记在心，学习时，不感到满足，教人时，不感到倦怠，这三方面我做到了哪些呢？

孔子

I don't think of myself as a celebrity. I think of myself as an actor who's had some success.

我不认为自己是个名人。我认为自己是一个取得了一些成功的演员。

汤米·李·琼斯

"Writing is a way of thinking, a way of understanding the world."

写作是一种思考的方式，一种理解世界的方式。

特雷莎·莫拉

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe.

历史总是由胜利者书写。当两种文化冲突时，失败者会被抹去，而胜利者则书写历史书籍——这些书籍美化他们的事业，贬低被征服的敌人。

丹·布朗

影响接受新技术的最后一种考虑，是新技术的优点能够很容易地看到。公元1340年，当火器还没有到达欧洲大部分地区时，英格兰的德比伯爵和索尔兹伯里伯爵碰巧遇上了西班牙的塔里法战役，阿拉伯人在战斗中对西班牙人使用了大炮。这两位伯爵对他们所看到的事印象深刻，于是把大炮引进英国军队，而英国军队热情地采用了大炮，并于6年后在克勒西战役中把它们用来对付法国士兵。

贾雷德·戴蒙德

在梦想实现之前，世界之魂会考验沿途学到的一切。这样做不是因为它邪恶，而是为了让我们在实现梦想的同时，掌握我们在追逐梦想过程中学到的教训。这是大多数人放弃的地方。正如我们在沙漠语言中所说的，那是‘在棕榈树出现在地平线时死于口渴’。

Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up. It's the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.'

保罗·科埃略

在我看来，问题在于你被灌输了这样的信念：你所做的事情至关重要。但这全是无稽之谈。

The problem, as I see it, is that you’ve been told to believe that what you do is of the utmost importance. But that’s all nonsense.

石黑一雄

溪流如弓背，山路如弓弦，故远近有了小小差异。

沈从文

我们不能改变历史，但我们可以塑造未来。

闻一多

我不在乎别人怎么说我，只要不是真的。

I don't care what people say about me as long as it isn't true.

50美分

不要高估一年的变化，也不要低估五年的成就。