1) The influence of people is short-lived and weak, but the influence of books is broad and far-reaching. ——Pushkin
2) Ideal books are the key to wisdom. ——Leo Tolstoy
3) Therefore, when Heaven is about to entrust a person with a great responsibility, he must first strain his mind, strain his muscles and bones, starve his skin, deplete his body, and mess up his actions. What he did, so he moved his heart and forbearance, was beneficial to what he could not do. ——Mencius
4) Black-haired people don’t know how to study diligently early, and white-haired people regret studying late. ——Yan Zhenqing
5) Books are friends. Although they are not passionate, they are very loyal. ——Hugo
6) Books are inseparable life partners and mentors for young people. ——Gorky
7) Reading is to build one's own thoughts with the help of other people's thoughts. ——Lu Bajin
8) Experienced people read with two eyes. One eye sees the words on the paper, and the other eye sees the back of the paper. ——Goethe
9) Don’t read too much, but think more. This kind of reading has benefited me a lot. ——Rousseau
10) Those who do not read will stop thinking. —— Diderot
11) Reading is easy, thinking is difficult, but without one of them, it is useless. ——Franklin
12) If you don’t read at midnight, your skills will be exposed to the cold. ——Guo Moruo
13) Desire for speed is the most serious disease in reading. Kung fu is about being dense and uninterrupted, not about being slow. ——Lu Long [Qing Dynasty]
14) If you don’t accumulate steps, you can’t reach a thousand miles; if you don’t accumulate small streams, you can’t become a river. ——Xunzi
15) How pleasant it is to learn and practice from time to time! ——Confucius
16) If I can survive, of course I will still learn. ——Lu Xun
17) Love books---this is the source of knowledge! ——Gorky
18) The more I read, the closer books bring me to the world. Life has become brighter and more meaningful to me. ——Gorky
19) Books are ships of thought sailing in the waves of the times. They carefully transport precious cargo to one generation after another. ——Bacon
20) Reading is to wisdom what gymnastics is to body. ——Addison [British writer]
Quotes about reading (selected)
1) Reading a good book is talking to many noble people. ——Goethe
2) Books are the summary of human knowledge. Books are the nourishment of the world. ——Shakespeare
3) Books are a huge force. ——Lenin
4) Good books are the most precious treasures. ——Belinsky
5) Books are this tool for transforming the soul. What mankind needs is enlightening nourishment. And reading is exactly this kind of nourishment. ——Hugo
6) Like reading is equivalent to changing the lonely hours in life into moments of great enjoyment. ——Montesquieu
7) If I read as much as others, I know as little as others. ——Hobbes [British writer]
8) There are three ways to read: one is to read without understanding, the other is to read and understand, and the other is to read and understand what is in the book. Nothing. ——Knyazhinin [Russian playwright and poet]
9) To learn to read, you must first read very slowly. Until the last book is worthy of your intensive reading, you should still read it very slowly. . ——Fauci (French scientist)
10) It is better to understand a page of a book than to read a volume hastily. ——Macaulay [British writer]
11) Reading without thinking back is like food without digesting it. ——Burke [American Thinker]
12) If you read but cannot use it, what you read is useless paper. ——Washington (American Politician)
13) Books make some people knowledgeable, but they also make some people who don’t eat enough go crazy. ——Petrarch [Italian poet]
14) Living in our world, it is completely impossible to understand people without reading. ——Gorky
15) The more I read, the emptier I feel. ——Shelley (British poet)
16) Reading is my only entertainment. I don't waste my time in hotels, gambling, or any kind of bad games; but I work as hard as necessary on my career. ——Franklin
17) Any valuable knowledge I have learned has come from self-study. ——Darwin
18) A person who loves books will not lack a loyal friend, a good teacher, a lovely companion, and a warm comforter. ——Barrow
19) A day without books means everything is wasted. ——Chen Shou
20) I threw myself on the book like a hungry person on bread.
——Golky