用心才能明白道理，而用心要保持虚空、专一而安静。荀子认为，人们在以前已经学到了一些知识的情况下，再学新东西的时候，容易犯经验主义的错误。生活中也是这样，我们在遇到一件事时，总是容易按以往的经验去判断，这样可能是错的。最好能保持虚空的状态，专心地看待这件事，然后可以想想是否可以借鉴以往的经验。
Success is the best revenge.
Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.
幸福不在于我们拥有多少，而在于我们享受多少。