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

2. If a bird wants to fly high, it first flutters its wings; if a person wants to make progress, he first studies. ——Li Kuchan

3. Work is accomplished by hard work, but wasteful by play; actions are accomplished by thinking, and destroyed by following. ——Han Yu

4. Don’t wait for a moment. The young man’s head will turn gray and he will feel sad. ——Yue Fei

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

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

7. Without learning, one cannot expand talents, and without ambition, one cannot achieve learning. ——Zhuge Liang

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

9. If you want to know the affairs of the world, you must read the books of the ancients. ——Feng Menglong

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

11. Read the book a hundred times, and its meaning will become apparent. ——Chen Shou

12. Reading is like traveling. Don’t be afraid of adventures. —— "Qing Shiduo·Studying"

13. Work hard at reading and enjoy writing. ——Cheng Duanli

14. The taste of foreign things will become disgusting after a long time; the taste of reading will become deeper and deeper as time goes by. ——Cheng Yi

15. Learning without thinking means nothing, thinking without learning means danger. ——Confucius

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

17. 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

18. When three people are walking together, there must be my teacher. Choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones. ——Confucius

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

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

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21. Books are like medicine. Reading them well can cure stupidity. ——Liu Xiang

22. If you don’t read for three days, your mouth will grow thorns; if you don’t read for three days, your hands will grow thorns. ——Zhu Shunshui of the Qing Dynasty, "Answers to Yejie Questions"

23. There are three ways of reading: reading with the heart, with the eyes, and with the mouth. ——Zhu Xi

24. Work hard to know all the words in the world, and resolve to read all the books in the world. ——Su Shi

25. If you are determined to have true character, you must work hard to study. —— Ruan Yuan

26. I am familiar with three hundred Tang poems and can recite them even if I can’t compose them. ——Sun Zhu's "Preface to Three Hundred Tang Poems"

27. When the book is used, it will be regretted. It will not be difficult until it has happened. ——Lu You

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

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

30. The joy of reading is as bright as the moon and frost as the sky is high. ——Zhu Xi

31. A good reader does not seek to understand. Whenever I get an idea, I happily forget to eat. ——Tao Yuanming

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

33. Reading is easy, thinking is difficult, but if one of them is missing, it will be useless. ——(USA) Franklin

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

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