智慧的花束

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. —Albert Einstein
一旦承認了自我的有限,我們就能超越前去。

The unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates
不知道自我反省的人生,不值得活。

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world. —Toni Collette
愈了解自己,愈能與周遭的人有良好的關係。

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. —Bernard Baruch
只有當你認識自己時,你的頭腦才能清楚有效率地為你效力。了解自己的弱點、熱忱和偏見,你方可辨明所見之事。

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.  ― Adam Smith
我們第一個要認識的就是自我。一個人能了解自己,便能跳脫自我,如觀察家般,客觀地查看自己對事物的反應。

Man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself. – John Calvin
唯有當我們認真尋求神時,我們才能真正看清並認識自己。

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. –Sun Tzu
知己知彼,百戰百勝 。

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. 
我憑著所賜我的恩對你們各人說:不要看自己過於所當看的,要照著神所分給各人信心的大小,看得合乎中道。(羅12:3)

For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
使你與人不同的是誰呢?你有甚麼不是領受的呢;若是領受的,為何自誇,彷彿不是領受的呢?(林前4:7)

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
我觀看你指頭所造的天,並你所陳設的月亮星宿,便說:人算甚麼,你竟顧念他?世人算甚麼,你竟眷顧他?(詩8:3,4)

He then answered, “Whether He is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”
他說:他是個罪人不是,我不知道;有一件事我知道,從前我是眼瞎的,如今能看見了。(約9:25)

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith.
既是這樣,那裡能誇口呢?沒有可誇的了。用何法沒有的呢?是用立功之法麼?不是,乃用信主之法 (羅3:27)

…sinners—of whom I am the worst. But for that very reason I was shown mercy…
..在罪人中我是個罪魁。然而,我蒙了憐憫… (提前1:15b-16a)

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