1. Work is accomplished by hard work, but wasteful by playfulness; success is achieved by thinking, and destroyed by casualness. ——Han Yu

2. If you don’t write for a day, everything will be wasted. ——Li Xu

3. Don’t wait and see. The white head of a young man is empty and sad. ——Yue Fei

4. Books are like medicine. Good reading can cure stupidity. ——Liu Xiang

5. The lights are on at three and the chickens are on at five, which is when men are studying. Black-haired people don't know how to study diligently early, and white-haired people regret studying late. ——Yan Zhenqing

6. There is no greater joy than reading, and nothing more important than teaching your children. ——"Proverbs Lianbi"

7. Reading unseen books is like finding a good friend; reading already read books is like meeting an old friend. ——"Lianbi of Proverbs"

8. My life has a limit, but my knowledge also has no limit. ——Zhuangzi

9. Be tireless in learning and teaching. ——Confucius

10. If you work hard and forget to eat, if you are happy and forget your worries, you don’t know that old age is coming. ——Confucius

11. Smart and eager to learn, not ashamed to ask questions. ——Confucius

12. Learning without thinking is a waste, thinking without learning is peril. ——Confucius

13. Isn’t it true that one should learn and practice from time to time? ——Confucius

14. Those who know are not as good as those who are good at it, and those who are good at it are not as good as those who are happy. ——Confucius

15. There are three ways to read, namely, the heart, the eyes, and the mouth. ——Zhu Xi

16. The method of reading is to proceed step by step, to read thoroughly and to think carefully. ——Zhu Xi

17. If you read without knowing, then think; if you think without knowing, then read. ——Zhu Xi

18. Learning does not care about reading, but if you don’t read, the meaning will not be clear. ——Zhu Xi

19. Apply one and infer three, hear one and know ten, and the scholar has studied deeply and is familiar with the principles, and then he can integrate them and understand them, so that he can achieve this. ——Zhu Xi

20. There is no other way to study, but to be determined and open-minded, and to play it repeatedly and carefully will be effective. ——Zhu Xi

21. In order to learn, don’t start with theory; if you want to learn theory, you must first read. ——Zhu Xi

22. (Reading) For example, if you chew food calmly, its taste will be long; if you chew and swallow it, you will not know the taste. ——Zhu Xi

23. Those who have no doubts in reading must be taught to have doubts; those who have doubts must have no doubts. Only then can they make progress. ——Zhu Xi

24. To establish oneself, one should first establish one’s studies, and to establish one’s studies, one should take reading as the basis. ——Ouyang Xiu

25. Strong knowledge and extensive knowledge are enough to understand the past and present. ——Ouyang Xiu

26. Be determined to read all the words in the world, and determined to read all the books in the world. ——Su Shi

27. Read old books without getting tired of reading them a hundred times. If you read them carefully, you will know yourself. ——Su Shi

28. Be broad-minded and make reservations, accumulate thickly but only thinly. ——Su Shi

29. If you don’t know the meaning of reading, it is better to sit in a high cabinet. How could you know, silverfish, that you will be in trouble all day long? ——Yuan Mei

30. A bookworm must be good at writing, and an art lover must have good skills. ——Pu Songling

31. When the book is used, it will be regretted. It will not be difficult until it has happened.

32. The prime years will never come again, and the morning will never come again. Be encouraged in time, time waits for no one. ——Tao Yuanming

33. If you like reading, you don’t ask for a thorough explanation; whenever you understand something, you happily forget to eat. ——Tao Yuanming

34. It is better to have no faith in the "Book" than to have no "Book" at all. ——Mencius

35. Talents have depth and depth, but not ancient and modern; texts have falsehood and authenticity, but there is no ancient or new. ——Wang Chong's "Lunheng"

36. Learn it eruditely, interrogate it, think it over carefully, discern it clearly, and practice it sincerely. ——"The Doctrine of the Mean"

37. Being eager to learn is close to knowledge, practicing hard is close to benevolence, and knowing shame is close to courage. ——"The Doctrine of the Mean"

38. Those who don't know enough are eager to learn, and those who are ashamed to ask are complacent. ——Lin Bu's "Records of Saving Hearts"

39. If you review the past and learn the new, you can become a teacher. ——"The Analects of Confucius"

40. If you fail to learn, you are afraid of losing it. ——"The Analects of Confucius"

41. Learning without converting is not learning. ——Yang Wanli's "Yongyan"

42. Be knowledgeable but not exhausted, practice diligently and never be tired. ——"Book of Rites"

43. It is better to be determined to think about true character and to study hard. —— Ruan Yuan

44. When reading, you should pay attention to understanding and follow the rules and sentences. ——Xu Hongjun

45. One out of ten people in the world give up because of difficulties, and nine out of ten people give up because of laziness. ——Yan Zhitui

46. People have setbacks and lose their prime years; just like studying late, don’t give up. ——Yan Zhitui

47. In reading, you want to be refined but not knowledgeable, and you want to be focused rather than miscellaneous. ——Huang Tingjian

48. A gentleman is knowledgeable and examines himself every day, then he will know clearly and act without fault. ——Xunzi

49. One thing is seen in the sentence, and three things are reflected outside the words. ——Liu Zhiji

50. Learning requires experience, and career requires expertise.

——Zhang Xuecheng