Famous Quotes about Reading

Seven Famous Quotes about Reading in Ancient China

It is the time for men to read when the lights are on at three o'clock and the rooster is on at five o'clock. Black-haired people don't know how to study diligently early, and white-haired people regret studying late. ——Yan Zhenqing

If you are crazy by nature, your ambition will be condensed: Therefore, those who are bookworms must be good at writing, and those who are art crazy must have good skills. ——Those who are in a state of decline without success are those who claim to be not crazy. ——Pu Songling's "A Bao"

Books are as rich as the sea, and they can be found in department stores. Human energy cannot be absorbed at the same time, but it can only be achieved by spring. Therefore, I hope that scholars will seek it one at a time.

——Su Shi's "A Brief Story of Dongpo's Collected Works"

When reading text, you must read it in large paragraphs, keep your spirit up, your muscles and bones upright, and don't be sleepy, as if there is a sword behind you. It is necessary to penetrate a paragraph. If you hit the beginning, the tail should be the same, and if you hit the tail, the head should be the beginning. Don't press the book and you will be there, and cover the book and forget it.

——Zhu Xi's "Complete Collection of Zhuzi's Language"

There are three ways to read, namely, the heart, the eyes, and the mouth. If your mind is not here, your eyes will not be able to read carefully. If your mind is not focused, it will just recite and read. You will never remember it, and it will not last long. Among the three arrivals, the heart is the most urgent. Once the heart has arrived, won’t the eyes and mouth not care? ——Zhu Xi's "Regulations on Training and Learning"

Education is more valuable than erudition. …It is better to know ten things but not reach the ground than to know one thing but reach the ground. ——Dai Zhen's "Chronicle of Mr. Dai Dongyuan"

It is most unhelpful to rely on reciting what you have read. ——Zheng Banqiao

3 Modern Chinese Quotations

A person who is omnipotent is really capable of nothing, and an expert who is expert in everything is really expert in nothing... ——Tao Fen's "Collected Works of Tao Fen"

Intensify your study, grasp the center, and prefer to be precise rather than miscellaneous, and prefer to be specialized rather than too many. ——Zhou Enlai, "Selected Works of Zhou Enlai"

Reading is like mining, "looking for gold in the sand." ——Zhao Shuli

3 Western Quotes

When I read books about topics that I don’t understand, the method I use is to first seek superficial insights into the topic. Skim many pages and chapters first, and then start over again from the beginning in order to acquire sophisticated knowledge. When I read the end of the book, I understood its origin. This is the only correct way I can introduce to you.

——Di Cigen: "The Logic of Dialectics"

What is important is not the quantity of knowledge, but the quality of knowledge. Some people know a lot, but they do not know the most useful something.

——Tolstoy

Find something in the books you read that can lead you to the depths, and throw away everything else, which is to throw away the mind. Overburdening and anything that lures you away from the point. ——Einstein

Reading Quotes

“Books are the chronicles of mankind. They pass on the countless rich experiences accumulated by the entire mankind from generation to generation.”——Kan Jerry

"Books are beacons standing in the vast ocean of time." - Whipple

"Books are good teachers who cultivate us. There is no need to whip and stick, no need to Words and reprimands, no tuition fees, no formality.”——Debury

“Books are the ladder of human progress”——Gorky

“The ideal book is wisdom. " - Tolstoy

"Excellent books are the precious milk that nurtures outstanding talents. They are preserved as human wealth and serve for the further development of human life." - Mill. Dayton

“Books are the accelerator of life.”——Niklaeva

“Books are the spiritual legacy of this generation to the next generation.”——Herzen