41 Quotes by Xun Kuang

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to. If there were no deliberate effort, then human nature would not be able to beautify itself.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.