The short eight-character famous sayings about reading are as follows:
1. Read a book a hundred times, and its meaning will become apparent.
2. Be determined to learn and dare to win.
3. Read it a hundred times, and its meaning will appear by itself.
4. Read a hundred times, and the righteousness will come to you.
5. A ruler is shorter and an inch is longer.
6. Be tireless in learning and teaching.
7. There is no limit to learning and a high ambition.
8. A person with high academic qualifications is a teacher, and a high degree of morality is a model.
9. Gentleman mechanics, day and night.
10. Take the next step forward.
11. If you are not diligent at the beginning, you will regret it at the end.
12. Work hard at reading and enjoy writing.
13. If you don’t write for a day, everything will be ruined.
14. Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you.
15. Advance knowledge to achieve harmony, and think far ahead when traveling.
16. Study hard and make progress every day.
17. A day without books means everything is in ruins.
18. A day without books means everything is wasted.
19. It takes three days to learn and three years to learn well.
20. Smart and eager to learn, and not ashamed to ask questions.
21. Read it a hundred times, and its meaning will become apparent.
22. It is better to have no books than to believe in all the books.
23. Study hard and practice hard, and you will always strive for the top.
24. Doing good is like ascending, doing evil is like falling.
25. If you work a hundred times as hard, you will succeed.
26. Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles.
27. If you persist in learning, you can carve gold and stone.
28. The rope cuts the wood, and the water drops penetrate the stone.
29. If you don’t learn, you will know yourself; if you don’t ask, you will know yourself.
30. Make candles for clarity and read for reason.
31. The method of reading is to proceed step by step, read thoroughly and think deeply. ——Zhu Xi
32. To establish a good character must be as straight as white jade; to read is more than reaching Qingyun. ——"Collection of Couplets"
33. To establish oneself, one should first establish one's studies, and to establish one's studies, one should take reading as the basis. ——Zheng Genglao
34. Many aristocratic families in ancient and modern times have nothing but accumulation of virtue. The first quality in the world is reading.
——"Proverbs Lian Bi"