91．对做某事审慎与否有疑虑，就别着手去做_智慧书（中英双语）

<h1>91．对做某事审慎与否有疑虑，就别着手去做</h1>

对做某事审慎与否有疑虑，就别着手去做。行事之人只担心失败，旁观者却已确认失败，尤其当旁观者为你的对手时。如果你的判断在当初冲动的情绪中已摇摆不定，那么待稍后冷静思考后，你会责备自己，那样做无比愚蠢。如果你对行事是否慎重还有所怀疑时就开始行动，那将是十分危险的，最好把它放到一边去。明智之人不会依赖“可能”，他们始终在高度的理智控制下前进。当一件事在萌芽之时就遭到了判断力的质疑，那么，它怎么能成功呢？经内心法庭一致通过的决议还常常没有好结局，我们又怎么能指望怀有疑感的理智和摇摆不定的判断所办的事情呢？

<h1>91．Never set to work at anything if you have any doubts of its prudence</h1>

Never set to work at anything if you have any doubts of its prudence. A suspicion of failure in the mind of the doer is proof positive of it in that of the onlooker, especially if he is a rival. If in the heat of action your judgment feels scruples, it will afterwards in cool reflection be condemned as a piece of folly. Action is dangerous where prudence is in doubt: better leave such things alone. Wisdom does not trust to probabilities; it always marches in the midday light of reason. How can an enterprise seed which the judgment condemns as soon as conceived? And if resolutions passed <i>nem. con.</i> by inner court often turn out unfortunately, what can we expect of those undertaken by a doubting reason and a vaciting judgment?