Xun Kuang

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 Kuang

Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.

Xun Kuang

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

Xun Kuang

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 Kuang

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

Xun Kuang

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

Xun Kuang

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 Kuang

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

Xun Kuang

I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.

Xun Kuang

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