Better to dam the brook than the creek. 在小溪上筑坝总比在小溪上筑坝好。
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine. 群众灵魂的眼睛无法忍受神的异象。 -- Plato 柏拉图
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more. 知识来了，智慧却迟迟不前，我徘徊在岸边，而个体枯萎了，世界变得越来越大。 -- Alfred Tennyson 阿尔弗雷德·丁尼生
Neither reprove nor flatter thy wife, where any one heareth or seeth it. 人听见、看见你的妻子、不要责备、也不要奉承。
When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras. 当你听到马蹄声时，想想马，而不是斑马。
I have taken all knowledge to be my province. 我把所有的知识都当作我的专长。 -- Francis Bacon 弗朗西斯·培根
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. 我的拇指被扎了一下，某种邪恶的东西就这样来了。 -- William Shakespeare 威廉·莎士比亚
Call not a surgeon before you are wounded. 受伤前不要叫外科医生。
The less things change, the more they remain the same. 事物的变化越少，它们就越保持不变。