The famous sayings about encouraging reading are as follows:

1. The method of reading is to proceed step by step, to read thoroughly and to think carefully.

2. If you are talented and refuse to learn, why spend all your time studying.

3. The reason why I study and learn is that I want to be happy and improve my eyesight, which will also help my hearing.

4. Learning is the treasure of the body, and Confucianism is the treasure of the table. If you think you are prime minister, you must use scholars.

5. Many aristocratic families in ancient and modern times have nothing but accumulation of virtue. The first quality in the world is reading.

6. If you don’t know the taste of reading, it is better to sit in a high cabinet; you are like a stupid fish, eating dross all day long.

7. There is no other way to study, but to be determined and open-minded, and to play it repeatedly and carefully is to be successful.

8. If you don’t read, you will be stupid; if you don’t think, you will be shallow; if you don’t practice, you will be stupid; if you don’t use it skillfully, you will be dull.

9. Reading, this ordinary process that we take for granted, is actually a process of combining people’s souls with the great wisdom of all nations, ancient and modern.

10. If a bird wants to fly high, it flaps its wings first; if a man wants to make progress, he first studies.

11. Reading is like rice. Those who are good at eating will be energetic, and those who are not good at eating will get sick.

12. Read to gain knowledge, think to gain wisdom, be open-minded to gain knowledge, and apply skills to gain.

13. I may write or quit, and if I am exposed to the cold for a long time, I will not see any improvement even though I have been studying for hundreds of years.

14. A good reader, without asking for deep explanations. Every time I have an idea, I happily forget to eat.

15. Reading is easy, thinking is difficult, but if one of them is missing, it will be useless.

16. Reading is to build one’s own thoughts with the help of other people’s thoughts.

17. Black-haired people don’t know how to study hard, but white-haired people regret studying late.

18. No matter how many books you collect, if you don’t read them, they are just a pile of waste paper; no matter how many books you read, if you don’t use them, they are just a flower bud without fruit.

19. The taste of foreign things will become disgusting after a long time; the taste of reading will become deeper and deeper as time goes by.

20. Don’t be in a hurry when reading. The time spent reading is long and interesting. You might as well let it go if you don't know, but you need to think about it urgently.