1. Food nourishes the body, and books enrich wisdom.

2. Talent is the result of hard work. Talent is the blade, hard work is the whetstone.

3. Achievement is the ladder for the humble to advance and the slide for the proud to retreat.

4. If you don’t eat, you will be hungry; if you don’t study, you will be stupid.

5. Stars make the sky dazzling; knowledge enables people to increase their talents.

6. Bees pluck hundreds of flowers to make sweet wine, and people read books to understand the truth.

7. Fingers may be long or short, and knowledge may be high or low. There is no before or after in learning, and those who have mastered it are the teachers.

8. Don’t listen to instructions and make many twists and turns. Pretending to understand if you don't understand will always be a loser.

9. A dull knife is sharpened by a stone, and a stupid person learns from it. Learning from others can make progress.

10. If you can’t learn, learn; if you don’t know, ask; if you are ashamed to ask others, you will never make progress.

11. If having a beard means you are knowledgeable, then a goat can also give lectures.

12. Humility is the friend of learning, and complacency is the enemy of learning.

13. Understanding your own ignorance means you have gained something.

14. Self-praise is self-contempt, and complacency is the end of wisdom.

15. A knowledgeable person will ask even if he understands; a person with shallow knowledge will not ask even if he does not understand.

16. Afraid of asking for directions and getting lost. Be diligent and never take the wrong path.

17. People who don’t ask will always be together with ignorance.

18. Learning comes from hard work, and art comes from hard work. Don't be afraid of being ignorant, but be afraid of being short of ambition.

19. Nothing is difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to climb.