The most important quality for a researcher is persistence.

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

领导力在于引导他人看到他们所做事情的价值。

——2002年6月温铁军在清华大学的一次讲座

The desire for recognition, the thymotic part of the soul, is the most political part of the human personality because it is what drives people to want to be recognized as superior to others.