人们通常喜欢听好听的话，一听到拂耳之言就容易产生不悦甚至愠怒。一个人特别是身居要职的人要能够心悦诚服地倾听逆耳之良言并从中获得智慧，就需要一种容忍和大度的雅量，而这往往依赖于人们的心性修养和对人性缺陷的克制；否则，就会给那些善于运用花言巧语和投其所好的人提供可乘之机，并伤害那些直言不讳的忠诚之人。
在理智上，人们大概愿意接受"兼听则明，偏信则暗"、"忠言逆耳利于行"等一类古老的真理，或者乐于信服老子说的"美言不信，信言不美"的哲理。但在行为上，人们又时常背离这些古训，不愿意听或听不进"逆耳"之言，"最终犯下严重的过失。

We have a natural tendancy for favoured comments , agains the harsh words. A man, especially one occupying an important position, should be broad-minded and generous enough to lend a willing ear to the offensive truth so that wisdom will be drawn from them, which can only be achieved by cultivation of the characters and the self-decipline to overcome human weaknesses. Otherwise, they will be the prey of those flatters and opportunists, hurting only outspoken oyal people .

Intellectually, we are probably willing to believe in the ancient truths that we should be wise if we listen to both sides of the isssue and we will be benighted if we heed only one side, that honest advice, though unpleasant to the ear, benefits conduct. Also, we are delightfully convinced of Laoism that the trustworthy words are not embellished and the embellished words are not trustworthy. However, we often deviate from those ancient maxims that still we turn a cold shoulder to the stern and hard-swallowed truths until eventually blunders are committed.

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