And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the …

- Hu Shih

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

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

- Hu Shih

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

- Hu Shih

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 …

- Hu Shih

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically see…

- Hu Shih

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

- Hu Shih

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 C…

- Hu Shih

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 intellige…

- Hu Shih