陈述是传达信息的手段，承诺是作出承诺的手段。

解读：智慧并非单纯知识堆砌，而是精准权衡事物各要素关系，做出客观、公平评判，不夸大不缩小，正确抉择。

词语的问题在于你永远不知道它们曾经过谁的嘴。

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered.

选自《盐铁论·孝养》。距：通“拒”。【大意】拒绝接受别人意见的视听闭塞，自己独断专行的就会遭到孤立。