Lin Yu-sheng, also an Academia Sinica academician, quotes Yin Haiguang, who taught liberal thought, saying of the May Fourth intellectuals: "Many could shout; few could think." Their political views were likewise always "twisted and confused, reflecting their own intellectual crisis rather than a genuine intellectual awakening."
也是中研院院士的林毓生，引述其自由主義思想導師殷海光的話，認為五四知識分子「多會呼叫、少能思想」，且言論往往「混淆、扭曲，反映了他們自己意識的危機多於真正思想的啟蒙。」