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Top 25 Hu Shih Quotes (2025 Update)

Hu Shih Quote: “India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.”

1. “India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.”

Hu Shih Quote: “The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.”

2. “The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.”

Hu Shih Quote: “Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.”

3. “Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.”

Hu Shih Quote: “The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.”

4. “The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.”

Hu Shih Quote: “Even the absolute universality of the law of causality does not necessarily limit a person’s freedom, because the law of causality not only enables him to explain the past and predict the future, but also encourages him to use his intelligence to create new causes and attain new results.”

5. “Even the absolute universality of the law of causality does not necessarily limit a person’s freedom, because the law of causality not only enables him to explain the past and predict the future, but also encourages him to use his intelligence to create new causes and attain new results.”

Hu Shih Quote: “In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.”

6. “In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.”

Hu Shih Quote: “Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.”

7. “Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.”

Hu Shih Quote: “What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.”

8. “What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.”

Hu Shih Quote: “It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.”

9. “It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.”

Hu Shih Quote: “It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.”

10. “It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.”

Hu Shih Quote: “Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.”

11. “Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.”

Hu Shih Quote: “Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.”

12. “Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.”

Hu Shih Quote: “No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.”

13. “No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.”

Hu Shih Quote: “And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.”

14. “And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.”

Hu Shih Quote: “On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.”

15. “On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.”

Hu Shih Quote: “Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.”

16. “Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.”

Hu Shih Quote: “On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.”

17. “On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.”

Hu Shih Quote: “And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.”

18. “And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.”

Hu Shih Quote: “The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and for particular individuals. Absolute truth is imaginary, abstract, vague, without evidence, and cannot be demonstrated.”

19. “The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and for particular individuals. Absolute truth is imaginary, abstract, vague, without evidence, and cannot be demonstrated.”

Hu Shih Quote: “For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.”

20. “For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.”

Hu Shih Quote: “The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance.”

21. “The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance.”

Hu Shih Quote: “But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.”

22. “But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.”

Hu Shih Quote: “The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.”

23. “The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.”

Hu Shih Quote: “In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.”

24. “In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.”

Hu Shih Quote: “Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.”

25. “Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.”

Hu Shih Quote: “Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.”

26. “Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.”

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