1 Seeking knowledge can be used as a pastime, as a decoration, or as a way to increase your talents.

Reading can be a pastime when you are lonely. When you talk, knowledge can be used as decoration. The correct application of knowledge means power when you go about your business in the world.

2 People who understand the cause and effect of things are happy.

Although people with practical experience can handle individual matters, if they want to take an overall view and plan the overall situation, they can only do it by mastering knowledge.

3 Seeking knowledge can improve people and nature, and experiments can improve knowledge itself.

Human nature is like wild flowers and plants, and seeking knowledge and learning is like pruning and transplanting. Practical experiments can test the authenticity of the revised knowledge itself.

4 Cunning people despise knowledge, fools envy knowledge, but smart people are good at using knowledge.

Knowledge itself does not tell people how to use it. The method of application is outside the book. It's a craft. You cannot learn without experimenting. You should not read books just to criticize and refute, but you should not easily trust books either. The purpose of seeking knowledge is not to brag and show off, but to find the truth and enlighten wisdom.

5 Some knowledge only needs a brief taste, and some knowledge only needs a rough understanding. Only a small amount of specialized knowledge requires in-depth study and careful consideration.

So, for some books, you only need to read part of them, for some books, you only need to know the outline, and for a few good books, you need to read them intensively, carefully, and repeatedly. Some books can be read by someone. Just read it for you and then read the summary of his notes. But this is only limited to books of poor quality. Otherwise, a good book will be like distilled water, becoming bland and tasteless!

6 Reading can enrich people's minds, discussion can make people understand right and wrong, and taking notes can make knowledge accurate.

Therefore, if a person returns to taking notes, his memory must be strong and reliable. If a man wishes only to explore alone, his mind must be exceptionally sharp. If someone doesn't read and wants to pretend to be knowledgeable, he must be cunning to hide his ignorance.

7 Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people intelligent, calculation makes people precise, philosophy makes people profound, ethics makes people cultivated, and logic and rhetoric make people eloquent. In short, "knowledge can shape people's character."

Various mental deficiencies can be improved through seeking knowledge - just like physical deficiencies can be improved through exercise. For example, playing ball is good for the waist and kidneys, archery can expand the chest and lungs, walking can help digestion, riding can make people more responsive, and so on. Similarly, a person who is not focused can study mathematics, because mathematics will make mistakes if he is not careful. People who lack analytical judgment can study scholasticism, because this discipline is most concerned with complicated dialectics. People who are not good at reasoning can study law, and so on. These mental deficiencies can be cured by seeking knowledge.

8 Love on stage is much more beautiful than love in life.

On the stage, love is just the stuff of comedy and tragedy, but in life, love often leads to misfortune. Sometimes it resembles the seductive witch, and sometimes it resembles the vengeful goddess. This shows that love can not only occupy an open mind, but also sometimes break into a tightly guarded heart--

--if the defense is not tight.

9 Life is just a big stage.

It seems that human beings who should strive to pursue noble causes should only act like dolls. Although slaves of love are not different from those beasts who only care about eating and drinking, they are only slaves of eyes and color after all, and God gave people eyes for a nobler purpose. Excessive pursuit of love will inevitably reduce the value of the person himself.

10 Virtue is like a gem, it becomes more gorgeous when set against each other’s background.

Not all beautiful people have other talents. Because creation is stingy, he will not give back to another after giving one. Therefore, many people with good looks do nothing. They pursue the beauty of appearance too much and abandon the inner beauty. The beauty of body is better than the beauty of color, and the beauty of elegant behavior is Better than physical beauty.

The autumn colors in late autumn on November 11 are the most beautiful.

Although some young people are beautiful, they are not worthy of praise due to lack of graceful cultivation. Beauty is like a midsummer fruit, which is easy to rot and difficult to maintain. There are many beauties in the world who had a dissolute youth but faced a regretful old age. Therefore, combine beautiful appearance with beautiful virtue. Only in this way can beauty radiate its true brilliance.