不该说话的时候却抢着去说，这叫急躁；到该说话的时候却闭口不说，这叫隐瞒；不看别人的脸色便随便插嘴，这叫没有眼色。

我们看到自己想看到的，相信自己想相信的。

The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.