Like Sun Yat-sen, Hsu Shih-hsien's aspiration at first was to treat illness and heal people. However, heavily influenced by Sun's philosophy of "healing people to heal the nation," she set out on the road to democracy.
和國父孫中山先生一樣，許世賢的淑世理想，原是救疾救病，但後來受到國父「醫人醫國」的理念影響，她也踏上為民主奔走的道路。