1. Reading is to wisdom as gymnastics is to body. ——Edison

2. When reading, I would like to stay in front of every beautiful thought, just like I stay in front of every truth. ——Emerson

3. Reading without thinking is equivalent to eating without digesting. ——Polk

4. Read well, read more, and read good books. ——Bing Xin

5. Reading is easy, thinking is difficult, but if one of them is missing, it will be useless. ——Franklin

6. Reading makes people enriched, thinking makes people profound, and talking makes people sober. ——(U.S.A.) Franklin

7. When studying, one aspires to be a sage; when serving as an official, one aspires to the kingdom. ——Zhu Yongchun

8. When reading, I am willing to stay in front of every beautiful thought, just like I stay in front of every truth. ——Emerson

9. Light gives us experience, and reading gives us knowledge. —— Ostrovsky

10. Reading is my only entertainment. I don’t waste time in hotels, gambling or any kind of bad games. ——(USA) Franklin

11. It is most unhelpful to rely on reciting what you have read. ——Zheng Banqiao

12. People who do not study will stop thinking. —— Diderot

13. The more we read, the more we discover that we are ignorant. ——Shelley

14. Reading is like rice. Those who are good at eating will be energetic, and those who are not good at eating will get sick.

——Zhang Xuecheng