【金句】Eleanor Roosevelt - Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss

連結

• 研究此金句來源的來源 - quoteinvestigator.co...

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

智者論道，凡夫論事，小人論人

從來源抄一段解釋：

To the uneducated, abstract ideas are unfamiliar; so is the detachment that is necessary to discover a truth out of one’s own knowledge and mental effort. The uneducated person views life in an intensely personal way—he knows only what he sees, hears or touches and what he is told by friends. As the unknown sage puts it, “Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.”

對於沒有受過教育的人來說，抽象的概念是陌生的。從自己的知識和精神努力中發現真理所必需的超然態度也是如此。沒有受過教育的人以一種非常個人化的方式看待生活——他只知道他所看到的、聽到的或觸摸到的以及朋友告訴他的。正如這位不知名的聖人所言：“智者論道，凡夫論事，小人論人”