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励志英语：一个人何时变老
realize I am growing old.”
William James, the great psychologist, said that most men are
twenty-fiveHe was right. Most men at twenty-five are satisfied with their jobs. They
have accumulated the little stock of prejudices that they call their
closed their minds to all new ideas; they have ceased to grow.
The minutea man ceases to grow-no matter what his years-that minute he begins
to be old. On the other hand, the really great man never grows old.
Goethe passed out at eighty-three, and finished his Faust only a few years earlier;
Gladstone took up a new language when he was seventy. Laplace, the astronomer, was
still at work when death caught up with him at seventy-eight. He died crying,
know is nothing; what we do not know is immense.
And there you have the real answer to the question,
Laplace at seventy-eight died young. He was still unsatisfied, still sure that he had
a lot to learn.
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