From: "The Complete Works of Zeng Wenzhenggong".

When Gaishi people study, they must first be ambitious, secondly knowledgeable, and thirdly perseverant. If you have ambition, you will never be willing to be inferior; if you have knowledge, you will know that knowledge is endless, and you will not dare to be self-sufficient in one thing. You are like a riverboy looking at the sea, like a frog in a well peering into the sky. They are all ignorant; if you have perseverance, you will never be able to accomplish anything. All three are indispensable.

Translation: When scholars study, they must first have ambition, secondly have knowledge, and thirdly have perseverance. If you are ambitious, you will not be willing to be inferior; if you are knowledgeable, you will know that there is no end to learning, and you will not dare to be self-satisfied with a little experience. Like a river boy looking at the sea, or a frog at the bottom of a well looking at the sky, these are all without knowledge; if you have perseverance, you will definitely achieve anything. things. Ambition, knowledge, and perseverance are all indispensable.

Extended information

1. There are three benefits to reading

Author: Zhu Xi Dynasty: Song Dynasty

Original text: Yu Chang said: There are three benefits to reading , meaning that the heart arrives, the eyes arrive, and the mouth arrives. If the mind is not here, the eyes will not look carefully. If the mind is not focused, it will only read rambles. It will never be memorized, and it will not be memorized for a long time. Among the three arrivals, I feel the most anxious. Now that the heart is there, won’t the eyes and mouth not care?

Translation: I once said: When reading, you should pay attention to the "three things", that is, you must concentrate on reading, read carefully, and recite. If the mind is not on the book, then the eyes will not read carefully; since the mind and eyes are not focused and united, but just read casually, then they will not remember it, and even if they do, they will not remember it for long. Among these three things, the heart is the most important. If the mind is concentrated, will the eyes and mouth still lose focus?

2. Beautiful sentences describing reading

1. Reading is the ocean of knowledge; reading is the spiritual world; reading is the dream of history; reading is the paradise of culture !

2. I love reading, not for a "golden house", nor do I hope to have a "beautiful face." I just experience the endless joy of reading from practice.

3. Every time I read, I will think of what the teacher once said: There are two ways to read, one is to read a very thick book thin; the other is to read a very thin book thick. In fact, whether you are reading a short book or a thick book, it is the highest level of reading a book well.