Wang Chen-hua of the Teh-Chien Academy, commenting on Zhu Xi's intellectual honesty, agrees with the conclusion of the Ming dynasty thinker Wang Yangming, who wrote that Zhu had the character to see where his own thinking was wrong and admit his errors.
「德簡書院」主持人王鎮華指出，朱熹本其學術真誠，當學問不對路，如明朝思想家王陽明所說，「他力量大，知悔變轉。」