The famous sayings about encouraging learning are as follows:

1. Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles. ——Liu Yi

2. Black-haired people don’t know how to study early, and white-haired people regret studying late. ——Yan Zhenqing

3. The books are as affectionate as old friends, and the joys and sorrows of the morning and dusk are like each other. ——Yu Qian

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

5. If young people don’t work hard, old people will be sad. ——"Han Yuefu·Chang Ge Xing"

6. It is inspired by "Poetry", established by etiquette, and achieved by music. ——Confucius

7. Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you. ——Confucius

8. Read more than ten thousand volumes, and write like a god. ——Du Fu

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

10. To establish oneself is to establish one’s studies first, and to establish one’s studies is to read. ——Ouyang Xiu

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

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

13. Without learning, there is no way to expand talents, and without ambition, there is no way to achieve learning. ——Zhuge Liang

14. If a jade is not pecked, it will become useless; if a man does not learn, he will not know the meaning. ——"Book of Rites"

15. Work is accomplished by hard work, but wasteful by play; actions are accomplished by thinking, and destroyed by casualness.

——Han Yu