Quotes About Xun

#1. People with good memories are liable to be crushed by the weight of their suffering. Only those with bad memories, the fittest to survive, can live on. - Lu Xun

Peter Hessler

#2. Is that it?" Jack asked. "No. That is the Xing zheng yuan Hui an Xun fang Shu." "I was just going to say that," Tessa said.

Richard Paul Evans

#3. Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path. - LU XUN

Jacqueline Novogratz

#4. The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

Xun Zi

#5. Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Xun Zi

#6. Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

Xun Zi

#7. Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

Xun Zi

#8. I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples' homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together?

Zhou Xun

#9. Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.

Lu Xun

#10. Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

Lu Xun

#11. When the Chinese suspect someone of being a potential troublemaker, they always resort to one of two methods: they crush him, or they hoist him on a pedestal.

Lu Xun

#12. In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

Xun Zi

#13. A woman has so many parts to her body, life is very hard indeed.

Lu Xun

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

Xun Zi

#15. As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die.

Lu Xun

#16. Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

Xun Zi

#17. When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

Xun Zi

#18. Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it.

Lu Xun

#19. When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

Lu Xun

#20. I think there are many faces to everyone. I also have my bad sides. Also I think everyone is trying to improve their shortcomings to become more wholesome.

Zhou Xun

#21. Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

Xun Zi

#22. Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

Xun Zi

#23. But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.

Lu Xun

#24. Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

Xun Zi

#25. 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.

Xun Zi

#26. Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress ... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.

Zhou Xun

#27. In China, we think that if you want something to happen, you don't talk about it. So I will keep who I want to work with as my secret.

Zhou Xun

#28. I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

Xun Zi

#29. Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

Xun Zi

#30. Why should young people look for guides who hang out gided placards to advertise themselves? They would do better to look for friends, unite with them, and advance together towards some quarter where it seems possible to survive.

Lu Xun

#31. The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

Xun Zi

#32. When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

Xun Zi

#33. Since someone ate crabs, others must have eaten spiders as well. However, they were not tasty. So afterwards, people stopped eating them. These people also deserve our heartfelt gratitude.

Lu Xun

#34. When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

Xun Zi

#35. If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

Xun Zi

#36. It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

Lu Xun

#37. But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.

Lu Xun

#38. It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

Zhou Xun

#39. The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.

Lu Xun

#40. The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

Lu Xun

#41. The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and find no way out. Dreamers are fortunate people. If no way out can be seen, the important thing is not to awaken the sleepers.

Lu Xun

#42. Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

Xun Zi

#43. Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

Xun Zi

#44. If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh, to cry, to be angry, to accuse, to fight-that they may at least cleanse this accursed place of its accursed atmosphere!

Lu Xun

#45. To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

Lu Xun

#46. John Stuart Mill declared that tyranny makes men cynical. He did not know that a Republic makes them silent.

Lu Xun

#47. Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

Xun Zi

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

Xun Zi

#49. You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

Lu Xun

#50. All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.

Lu Xun

#51. In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

Xun Zi

#52. Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Xun Zi

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

Xun Zi

#54. In China, especially in the cities, if someone fainted on the streets, or if someone was knocked over by a car, you'll find lots of gawkers and gloaters, but rarely will you find someone willing to extend a helping hand.

Lu Xun

#55. With the weight of four thousand years of cannibalism bearing down upon me, even if I was once innocent how can I now face real humans?

Lu Xun

#56. A person is born with a liking for profit.

Xun Zi

#57. If we want to work out a policy for the present, we must examine the past and prepare for the future, discard the material and elevate the spirit, rely on the individual and exclude the mass.

Lu Xun

#58. I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.

Lu Xun

#59. But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.

Lu Xun

#60. If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

Xun Zi

#61. I could not blot out hope, for hope belongs to the future.

Lu Xun

#62. Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

Lu Xun

#63. If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

Lu Xun

#64. Creation, even when it is a mere outpouring from the heart, wishes to find a public. By definition, creation is sociable. Yet it can be satisfied with merely one single reader: an old friend, a lover.

Lu Xun

#65. Though science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams.

Lu Xun

#66. The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

Xun Zi

#67. Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.

Lu Xun

#68. Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

Xun Zi

#69. The sorrow and happiness of those people are not related.
I only find them noisy.

Lu Xun

#70. I say that in learning nothing is more profitable than to associate with those men who are learned, and of the roads to learning, none is quicker than to love such men

Xun Kuang

#71. Like students going to school, the planes on their bombing missions fly over Beijing each morning. And each time I hear their engines attack the air I feel a certain slight tension, as if I were witnessing the invasion of Death, though this heightens my consciousness of the existence of Life.

Lu Xun

#72. No one should stand for nor chant the Pledge of Allegiance because it was the origin of the Nazi salute and Nazi behavior (see the discoveries by the historian Dr. Rex Curry in the many books that cite his academic work)

Lin Xun

#73. I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events - it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world.

Zhou Xun

#74. A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.

Xun Zi

#75. The world is changing from day to day; it is high time for our writers to take off their masks, look frankly, keenly, and boldly at life, and write about real flesh and blood. It is high time for a brand-new arena for literature, high time for some bold fighters to charge headlong into battle!

Lu Xun

#76. If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

Xun Zi

#77. A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

Xun Zi

#78. 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.

Xun Zi

#79. Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.

Lu Xun

#80. Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

Lu Xun

#81. Trust only him who doubts.

Lu Xun

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

Xun Zi

#83. If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

Xun Zi

#84. The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

Xun Zi

#85. To protect myself from the rear, I have to stand slantwise.

Lu Xun

#86. I have a dream that I will fulfill. And nothing else will distract me from my path.

Lu Xun

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

Xun Zi

#88. If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

Xun Zi