《论衡·卷二十六·实知篇》
俗儒评论圣人，认为圣人前知千年以前的事，后知万年以后的事，有独到的眼力，有独到的听力，事物一出现就能说出它的名目来，圣人不学就能感知，不问就能通晓，所以一提到圣人就认为和神一样了。
儒者论圣人，以为前知千岁，後知万事，有独见之明，独听之聪，事来则名，不学自知，不问自晓，故称圣，则神矣。
Ordinary Confucian scholars commented on sages, believing that sages know about things that happened a thousand years ago and things that will happen ten thousand years later, that they have unique eyesight and hearing, that they are able to give things names as soon as they appear, that sages do not need to learn to know things and do not need to ask questions to understand things, so that when talking about sages they would regard them as being the same as gods.