People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

人们贬低知识和智力生活，并敦促去做。只要我能知道，我就满足了。

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生