英语经典名言

一:经典英语名言说“真理”

1. Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. (Aldous Huxley)

人们通过不断犯错误接近不可企及的真理。(阿尔多斯· 哈克斯利)

2. All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure,an apparent encing-in of what is apparently at issue.(Franz Kafks)

人类的全部错误在于缺乏耐心,过早地打断系统化的程序,公然地对有明显争议的问题下限制性的结论。(弗朗兹· 卡夫卡)

3. It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem. (Malcom Forbes)

当你对问题了解不太多的时候,比较容易提出解决办法。(马克姆· 福布斯)

4. Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used. (David Lehman)

字词不是只有一个固定含义。就像任性的电子,它们从最初的轨道里蹦出来,进入一个更大的磁场。他们不属于谁,谁也没有权力限定应该怎样使用它们。(戴维· 莱曼)

5. What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. (Benjamin Disraeli)

重要的并不总是确实的。相反,谬误往往比真理来的更为重要。(本杰明· 迪斯雷利) 二:经典英语名言说“knowledge”

1. Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily, it must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and more than all, must be prayed for. -- Thomas Arnold

真知如同珍宝,不是轻易获得的,必须学习、钻研、思考,最重要的是必须有强烈的求知欲。(托马斯· 阿诺德)

2. Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams. (Daniel Webster)

知识的确是天空中硕大无比的太阳。它的光辉撒下生命和力量。(韦伯斯特)

3. Knowledge is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. -- Emerson

知识是一座城堡,每个人都应为它增砖添瓦。(爱默生)

4. Knowledge is power. (Bacon)

知识就是力量。(培根)

5. Knowledge is the food of the soul. (Plato)

知识是心灵的食粮。(柏拉图)

6. Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams. ( Daniel Webster)

知识的确是天空中硕大无比的太阳,它的光辉撒下生命和力量。(韦伯斯特)

7. Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. (William) Shakespeare

无知乃是罪恶,知识乃是我们借以飞向天堂的翅膀。(莎士比亚)

8. Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. (Bacon) 读书使人充实,讨论使人机敏,写作使人严谨.(培根)

9. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries. (Descartes)

所有的好书,读起来就如同和过去世界上最杰出的人谈话。(笛卡尔)

10. That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. (L.W.Akott) 好书使人开卷有所求,闭卷有所获。( 奥尔科特)

三:经典英语名言说“成功”

1.Do nor for one repulse, for go the purpose that you resolved to effort. -- Shakespeare

不要因为一次挫折就放弃你原来决心要达到的目标。( 莎士比亚)

2.Perseverance is falling nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. (J. Anderson)

只要坚韧不拔,失败十九次之后,第二十次就会成功。(安德森)

3.Today’s opportunity erase yesterday’s failures. (Gene Brown)

今日的机遇可抹去昨日的失败。(吉恩 · 布朗)

4.You have to pay the price but if you do you can only win. (Frank Leahy)

为了成功,你必须付出代价。如果你付出了代价,你就会成功。(莱希)

5.It’s better to have fought and lost, than never to have fought at all. (A.H.Clough)

奋战过而失败,强于根本未战。(克拉夫)

6.Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even. (Lincoln)

记住,当人生之路陡峭之时,要保持沉着。( 林肯)

7.Meet success like a gentleman and disaster like a man. (Fredrich Edwin Smith Birkenhead)

优雅地迎接成功,勇敢地面对挫折。(伯肯黑德)

8.A man can succeed at almost anything for which he was unlimited enthusiasm. ( C. M. Schwal)

只要有无限的热情,一个人几乎可以在任何事情上取得成功。( 施瓦希)

9.Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore. ( A. Gide)

人只有鼓起勇气,告别海岸,才能发现新的海洋.( 纪德)

10.The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. -- Goethe

人生最重要的是树立一个远大的目标,并下定决心去实现它. (歌德)

四:经典英语名言说“品格”

1.All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. (John Locke, British Philosopher)

人都会犯错误,在许多情况下,大多数仍是由于欲望或兴趣的引诱而犯错误的。(英国哲学家 洛克.J.)

2.Character is what you are in the dark. (D. L Moody. USA churchman)

暗处最能反映一个人真正品格。(美国教士 穆迪.D.L)

3.Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. (Clare Boothe Luce, RSA dramatist)

勇气是一架梯子,其他美德全靠它爬上去。(美国剧作家 卢斯.C.B.)

4.Despite all the life danger, with one selfless act from one common person, someone is saved, A hero is made. (Norman Stephens, USA writer)

不管一切危险,由于一个普通人的无私行动,有人得救了,英雄就应运而生。(美国作家 斯蒂芬斯.N.)

5.Distrust can be contagious. But, so can trust. (Robbins Stacia, British writer)

不信任有传染性。但是信任也如此。(英国作家 斯达卡.R.)

6.Fame is the chastisement of meit and the punishment of talent. (Nicolas Chamfort, French writer)

盛名殊誉是德才之忌。(法国作家 尚福尔.N.)

7.God was constructed out of mankind's need for hope, for purpose, for meaning:an invisible protector and conscientious father. (Howards Mel. USA .writer)

人类出于对希望、目标意义的需要而造出了神:一位冥冥之中的保护者和尽责的养育者。(美国作家 梅尔.H.)

8.He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars; general good is the plea of the scoundrel , hypocrite and flatterer. (William Black, British poet)

行善总是具体的、特定的;抽象的、笼统的行善是恶棍、伪君子和献媚者的托辞。(英国诗人 布莱克.W.)

9.I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. (Ernest Hemingway, USA writer)

我只知道所谓道德是指你事后觉得好的东西,所谓不道德是指你事后觉得不好的东西。(美国作家 海明威.E.)

10.If you would convince others ,you seem open to conviction yourself. (Philip Dormer Chesterfield, British statesman)

要说服别人,先得说服自己。(英国政治家切斯特菲尔德.P.D.)

五:经典英语名言说“道德”

1.If your morals make you dreary. depend upon it, they are wrong. (Robert Louis Stevenson, British novelist)

如果你的品行使你郁郁寡欢,那么,这些品行无疑是错误的。(英国小说家 斯蒂文森.R.L.)

2.It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. (Magaret Mead, USA humanist)

一个有待解决的问题是:基于是害怕无休止的惩罚而产生的行为是被视作有道德的呢,还是应该被视作懦弱的?(美国人文学家 米德.M.)

3.It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way. (John Morley, British statesman)

人不仅要做好事,更要以正确的方式做好事。(英国政治家 莫利.J.)

4.Lying disguises our mortality, our inadequacies, our fears and anxieties, our loneliness in the midst of the crowd. We yearn for the comfort of familiar lies to create a more amenable reality. (Howards Mel, USAwriter)

说谎掩盖了人死的必然性、缺陷、恐惧、焦虑和在熙熙攘攘的人群中所感到的孤独。耳熟能详的谎言会创造一个较易应付的现实。 人渴望从这些谎言中得到安慰。(美国作家 梅尔.H.)

5.Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness. (Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher)

道德确实不是指导人们如何使自己幸福的教条,而是指导人们如何配享有幸福的学说。(德国哲学家 康德.I.)

6.Morality is the custom of one's country ;cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country. (Samuel Brttler, British writer)

道德是一个人所在国家的风俗习惯:在吃人的国家里,吃人是合乎道德的。(英国作家 勃特勒.S.)

7.Morality is the herd instinct in the individual. (German Philosopher)

道德是个人心目中的群居本能。(德国哲学家 尼采.F.)

8.Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. (Leon Nlum, French statesman)

道德可能仅仅在于有勇气作出抉择。(法国政治家 布鲁姆.L.)

9.Mutual forgiveness of each vice, such are the gates of Paradise. (William Black, British poet)

相互宽容对方的缺点,乃是通向天堂之门。(英国诗人 布莱克.W.)

10.No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authouity were divine. (A. J. Ayer. USA writer)

道德不可能建立在权威的基础上,即使这种权威是至高无上的。(美国作家 艾尔.A.J.) 六:经典英语名言说“生活”

1、Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.( T. Fuller )

生活只是由一系列下决心的努力所构成的。(富勒)

2、Live as though you intend to live forever, and work as though your strength were limit less. (S.

Bernhardt)

要这样生活,仿佛你寿命永恒;要这样工作,仿佛你精力无穷。(波恩哈特)

3、Other man live to eat, while I eat to live. (Socrates )

别人为食而生存,我为生存而食。(苏格拉底)

4、Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. ( S. Butler )

生活是一种艺术,要在不充足的前提下得出充足的结论。(巴特勒)

5、Life is not all beer and skittles. ( T. Hughes )

人生并非只是吃喝玩乐。(休斯)

6、For man is man and master of his fate. ( A. Tennyson )

人就是人,是自己命运的主人。(丁尼生)

7、The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. ( V. Hugo )

生活中最大的幸福是坚信有人爱我们。(雨果)

8、Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. (Marie Curie)

生活中没有什么可怕的东西,只有需要理解的东西。(居里夫人)

9、Life is a leaf of paper white, thereon each of us may write his word or two. ( A. Lowell )

生活是一张白纸,每个人都在上面写上自己的一两句话。(洛威尔)

10、We can’t all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. (W. Roger )

我们不可能都成为英雄。总得有人在英雄走过的时候坐在路边鼓掌。(罗杰)

七:经典英语名言说“努力”

1、Man errs so long as he strives. (Johan Wolfgang Goethe , German poet and dramatist)

人只要奋斗就会犯错误。 (德国诗人、剧作家 歌德. J. W.)

2、Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow . (Emerson, American thinker )

进步是今天的活动、明天的保证。 (美国思想家 家默生)

3、The world can be changed by man's endeavor, and that this endeavor can lead to something new and better .No man can sever the bonds that unite him to his society simply by averting his eyes . He must ever be receptive and sensitive to the new ; and have sufficient courage and skill to novel facts and to deal with them . (Franklin Roosevelt , American President )

人经过努力可以改变世界,这种努力可以使人类达到新的、更美好的境界。没有人仅凭闭目、不看社会现实就能割断自己与社会的联系。他必须敏感,随时准备接受新鲜事物;他必须有勇气与能力去面对新的事实,解决新问题。(美国总统罗斯福建. F.)

4、We cannot always build the future for our youth , but we can build our youth for the future . (Franklin Roosevelt , American president )

我们不能总是为我们的青年造就美好未来,但我们能够为未来造就我们的青年一代。 (美国总统 罗斯福. F.)

5、To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ( J. W. Gardner )

对聪明人来说,每一天的时间都是要精打细算的。(加德纳)

6、Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of life. (Goethe )

天才形成于平静中,性格来自于生活的激流。(歌德)

7、Wherever valour true is found, true modesty willthere abound. ( W. S. Gilbert )

真正的勇敢,都包含谦虚。(吉尔伯特)

8、Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad. (Euripides)

上帝要谁灭亡,必先让他疯狂。(欧里比德斯)

9、Dare and the world always yields. lf it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.(W. M . Thackeray. British novelist)

大胆挑战,世界总会让步。如果有时候你被它打败了,不断地挑战,它总会屈服的。(英国小说家萨克雷. W. M.)

10、It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.(G. Eliot, Btitish novelist)

天上不会掉下玫瑰来,如果想要更多的玫瑰,必须自己种植。(英国小说家艾略特. G.) 八:经典英语名言说“能力”

1、Natural abilities are like natural plants ,that need pruning by study, and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large ,except they be bounded In by experience.(Bacon ,Of Studies ,Essays)

天生的能力好像天然生成的植物,必须通过学习加以修整;然而学习本身如若不由实践去约束,必然方向纷杂而漫无目的。——培根:《随笔·论学习》

2、As many languages as he has ,as many friends, as many arts and trades ,so many times is he a man.(Emerson ,Culture,The Conduct of Life)

竭尽全力掌握各种语言,结交各式朋友,精通各类技艺及行业,如此努力方能成为一个完整的人。——爱默生:《处世之道·论文化》

3、In a world as empirical as ours ,a youngster who does not know what he Is good at will not be sure what he is good for.(Edgar Friedenberg ,The Vanishing Adolescent)

在我们这个经验的世界里,一个不懂得自己精通什么的青年不会确切地知道他的价值所在。——埃德加·弗里登伯格:《消失的青少年》

4、Skills vary with the man .We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.(Pindar ,Odes)

技能因人而异、我们必须凭藉天生的资质引导我们执著前行,奋斗不息。——品达:《颂诗》

5、A man must not deny his manifest abilities ,for that is to evade his obligations.(Robert Louis Stevenson ,The Treasure of Franchard)

一个人不应否认他明显的能力,因为那便是对责任的逃避。——罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森:《弗朗查德的财宝》

6、we may judge a man’s ability by three things :by what he has done (including the impression he has made on others ),by what he himself appears to believe he can do ,by our own dramatic imagination ,based on his immediate personality ,of what he might do. If these do not agree it is prudent to observe him further.(Charles Horton Cooley ,Life and the Student)

我们可以根据三件事来判断一个人的能力:他已做过什么(包括他留给别人的印象),他“自认为他能做什么,根据他的个性揣度他可能做什么。如果三者不能统一还应审慎地做进一步观察。——查尔斯·霍顿·库里:《生活与学生》

九:经典英语名言说“思想”

1、We cannot change anything unless we accept it .Condemnation does not liberate it ,it oppresses.——Jung ,Psychological Reflections

对一件事情我们必先接受它,才能改变它。谴责并不能把我们从困扰中解脱出来,只会使之

加剧。——荣格:《分析心理学论文集》

2、The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness ;the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.——Tagore ,Letters to a Friend

拒人千里源于分裂的意识,宽容大度源于统一和谐意识。——泰戈尔:《致友人的信》

3、A man dies still If he has done nothing ,as one who has done much.——Homer ,Iliad

无所事事亦难逃一死,不如奋斗终生。——荷马:《伊利亚特》

4、Let the end try the man.——Shakespeare ,Henry IV

让最终的结局检验世人。——莎士比亚:《亨利四世》

5、Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly ,use soberly ,distribute cheerfully ,and leave contentedly.——Bacon ,Of Riches ,Essays

不要寻求令人称羡的财富,应当追求这样的境界:对财富正当地获取,清醒地使用,愉快地施舍并能知足地放弃。——培根:《随笔·论财富》

6、In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.——Aristotle ,Nicomachean Ethics

在人类生命的竞技场,荣誉与奖赏眷顾善于行动的人。——亚里士多德:《伦理学》

7、A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much ,and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.——Georges Bernanos ,The Last Essays of Georges Bernanos

思想倘若不引发行动则意义不大,而行动倘若不是源于思想则毫无意义。——乔治·伯尔那诺:《乔治·伯尔那诺之最后论文集》

8、No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has ,the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.——Emerson ,Power,The Conduct of Life

无论一个人观察能力有多强,从认知到行动这一步总是难以跨越。——爱默生:《处世之道·论权力》

9、A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death .It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain ,but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.——William Hazllit ,Table Talk

充满行动和危险的生活将减缓对死亡的恐惧。它不仅赋予我们承受痛苦的刚毅,而且时刻引

导我们把握飘忽不定的现在。——威廉·黑兹利特:《席间闲谈》

10、Action is thought tempered by illusion.——Elbert Hubbard ,The Philistine

行动是被幻想淬了火的思想。——艾尔伯特·哈伯德:《市民阶层》

11、The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another ,not because he does not feel them ,but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.——Aristotle ,Nicomachean Ethics

人们泰然自若地承受接踵而至的灾难,并不是由于感觉迟钝,而是由于具有崇高和英勇的品质,这时,尽管在厄运中,心灵美仍放射出灿烂光辉。——亚里士多德:《伦理学》 十:经典英语名言说“生存”

1、The quality of a life is determined by its activities.——Aristotle ,Nicomachean Ethics

生命的质量决定于它的活动。——亚里土多德:《伦理学》

2、Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences .No good is ever done in this world by hesitation .——Thomas Henry Huxley ,Aphorisms and Reflections

下定决心果断行动,并承担后果。在这世上犹豫不决成就不了任何事。——托·亨·赫胥黎:《警句与内省》

3、We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning ,justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific,concrete,individualized ,unique.——John Dewey ,Reconstruction in Philosophy

笼统抽象的健康、财富、学识、公正或善心无法寻找,也不能获得。行动总是特定的、具体的、个性化的、独一无二的。——约翰·杜威:《哲学的重建》

4、I have frequently experienced myself the mood in which I felt that all is vanity ,I have emerged from it not by means of any philosophy ,but owing to some imperative necessity of action.——Betrand Russell ,The Conqust of Happiness

我时常沉入一种情绪中,感觉一切都是虚幻。使我从中解脱出来的不是什么哲学,而是不得不采取行动的需要。——伯特兰·罗素:《征服幸福》

5、Even if it doesn’t work ,there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.——Henry Miller ,Remember to Remember

直接的行动即使不能奏效,也富有健康的朝气。——亨利·米勒:《为记忆而记忆》

6、A life will be successful or not according to as the power of accommodation is equal to or

unequal to the strain of fusing and adjusting internal and external changes.——Samuel Butler ,The Way of All Flesh

生活是否成功依赖于一个人的适应能力能否胜任融合和调节内部及外界变化这一重担。塞绍尔·小巴特勒;《众生之路》

7、Adapt or perish ,now as ever ,is Nature’s inexorable imperative.——H .G. Wells ,Mind at the End of Its Tether

适者生,不适者灭,这是自然界一如既往、永不变更的规律。——赫·乔·威尔斯:《黔驴计穷》

8、If you want to slip Into a round hole ,you must make a ball of yourself.——George Eliot ,The Mill on the Floss

你想要钻入一个圆洞,你就必须将自己变为球形。——乔治·爱略特:《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》

9、Always we like those who admire us ,but we do not always like those whom we admire.——La Rochefoucauld ,Maxims

我们总是喜欢那些赞赏我们的人,但不一定喜欢我们赞赏的人。——拉罗什福科:《道德警句集》

10、Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized .It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings ,through no fault ,and no merit of my own.——Einstein ,Ideas and Opinions

让每个人作为个人受到尊重,但不要让任何人成为偶像。我从众人那儿接受了过多的尊崇和敬意,这真是命运的嘲讽,因这既不是由于我的缺点,也不是出于我的美德。——爱因斯坦:《思想和见解》

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