學習與工作
1. One is never too old to learn.
人有老的時候, 沒有老得不能學的時候。
2. Cleverness does not take the place of knowledge.
聰明不能代替知識。
3. A wise man is never less alone than when alone.
智者獨處不寂寞。
4. Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
好書乃積累智慧之長明燈。
-----G. W. Curties 寇第斯
5. That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
好書使人開卷有所求, 閉卷有所獲。
-----L. W. Alcott 奧爾科特
6. No entertainment is so cheap as reading nor any pleasure so lasting.
沒有比讀書更便宜的娛樂, 也沒有比讀書更持久的歡樂。
7. A man who knows two languages is worth two men.
懂得兩種語言的人抵得上兩個人。
8. Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.
智慧之於頭腦, 猶如健康之於軀體。
9. Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
閱讀使人淵博, 會談使人機敏, 寫作使人嚴謹。
10. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep;moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
讀史使人明智, 讀詩使人靈秀, 數學使人周密, 科學使人深刻, 倫理學使人莊重, 邏輯修辭學使人善辯。
-----F. Bacon 培根
11. Bread nourishes the body, and books enrich the mind.
麵包滋養身體, 書本充實頭腦。
12. The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
讀書越多, 越感到學識不足。
13. A book that is shut is but a block.
有書不讀如藏木
14. All readers can be divided into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
所有的讀者都可以分為兩類: 有人為了記住而讀, 有人為了忘卻而讀。
15. There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
一個渴望讀書的人和一個累了想找本書看的人是大不相同的.
-----G. K. Chesterton 切斯特頓 (英國作家)
16. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
閱讀好書, 就好比是同過去多少世紀最傑出的人們交談。
-----R. Descartes 笛卡爾
17. Laziness in youth spells regret in old age.
少壯不努力, 老大徒傷悲。
18. Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
知識使人謙虛， 無知使人驕傲。
19. If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
同時追二兔， 全都抓不住。
20. One must draw back in order to leap better.
退後才能跳得更遠。