When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is to be ascribed to nature; when we have sincerity resulting from intelligence, this condition is to be ascribed to instruction. But given the sincerity, and there shall be the intelligence; given the intelligence, and there shall be the sincerity.

The superior man, while there is anything he has not studied, or while in what he has studied there is anything he cannot understand, Will not intermit his lab…

It is only he who is possessed of the most complete sincerity that can exist under heaven, who can give its full development to his nature. Able to give its fu…

Sincerity is the way of Heaven. The attainment of sincerity is the way of men. He who possesses sincerity is he who, without an effort, hits what is right, and…