1. Don’t be satisfied no matter how profound your knowledge is, and don’t ignore your mistakes no matter how small they are.

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

3. If you don’t move forward, you won’t know how far you have to go; if you don’t study hard, you won’t understand the truth.

4. If a tree is not cultivated, it will not grow straight; if a person does not learn, he will have no knowledge.

5. It is better to enrich yourself with knowledge than to decorate yourself with pearls.

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

7. Labor is the source of knowledge; knowledge is the guide to life.

8. Knowledge is the torch of wisdom.

9. A sword will become rusty if it is not sharpened; a person will fall behind if he does not learn.

10. Lush seedlings need water; growing teenagers need to learn.

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

12. Make candles to seek clarity, and read books to seek reason.

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

14. The three most precious things in the world are knowledge, food and friendship. (Burmese proverb)

15. Books that are kept but not read are like waste paper. (British proverb)

16. Accumulating knowledge is better than accumulating gold and silver. (European proverb)

14. Humility is a friend of learning

18. Mount Tai cannot be built, and knowledge cannot be boasted. The sky doesn't say anything about how high it is, and the earth doesn't say anything about how high it is.

19. When the water is full, it will overflow; when the moon is full, it will suffer losses; when you are complacent, you will be defeated; when you are conceited, you will be foolish.

20. Buns have meat, not skin; people are knowledgeable and don’t talk about it.

21. Nothing will happen if you are not sincere, and nothing will happen if you are not open-minded. Those who are not self-righteous will be knowledgeable, and those who are not complacent will benefit.

22. A humble person always thinks about his shortcomings; a proud person always praises his own strengths.

23. To praise oneself is to belittle oneself. Complacency is the end of wisdom.

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

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

26. People who brag about their knowledge are tantamount to promoting their ignorance.

24. Exaggerating is of no use. The shallower the knowledge, the deeper the confidence.

28. A person who is quiet and taciturn may not be stupid, and a person who is chatty and eloquent may not be wise.

29. A broad river is calm, and a knowledgeable person is humble. Scholars are not afraid of their clothes being torn, but they are afraid that their stomachs will be empty.

30. The mountains never get too high and the water never gets too deep. Pride is the precursor to failure.

31. Pride comes from shallowness, and arrogance comes from ignorance. Pride is the beginning of failure, and complacency is the end of wisdom.

32. People who tell lies are like firecrackers, they are over after one blast. Only when it is difficult to discern clearly can one be able to illuminate things; only when balance is balanced can one be able to weigh things.

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

34. The enemy of rushing is laziness, and the enemy of learning is complacency.

35. Humility makes people progress, while pride makes people fall behind. A person with modesty will learn ten things as ten, and a proud person will learn one thing as ten things.

36. The stronger among the stronger, the stronger among them. Don’t boast in front of others. Being satisfied with present achievements suffocates the future.

34. A person who likes to brag is like a big drum, whose sound is loud and hollow.

38. Only when people are empty can they know others. If you are full, you will suffer losses, but if you are modest, you will benefit. If you are full, you will overflow; if you are arrogant, you will be defeated.

39. Knowledge is stored in the sea of ??humility. (Korean proverb)

40. Understanding one’s ignorance means that one has gained something. (Latin American proverb)

40. Even a stone can wear a solid heart. A good memory is worse than a bad pen. Diligence is the mother of success.

41. Those who aim too high will gain nothing, but those who work hard will gain knowledge. A master of all kinds of skills is not as good as a master of one skill.

42. If you chase two rabbits at the same time, you will catch neither one. The first time he was alive, the second time he was familiar with it, and the third time he came to be a master.

43. Learning is like sailing against the current. If you don’t advance, you will retreat. Learning is like rushing, you can't be slow.

44. The root of knowledge is bitter, but the fruit of knowledge is sweet. Knowledge comes from diligence, wealth comes from thrift.

45. Attention is the gateway to wisdom. To achieve amazing art, you need to work hard.

46. As long as you work hard, the iron pestle can be ground into an embroidery needle. The fist never leaves the hand, the song never leaves the mouth.

44. Always speak fluently and act fluently. The lightest ink is better than the strongest memory.

48. Don’t relax while rubbing the rope, and don’t stop moving forward. Aiming is not shooting, starting is not reaching.

49. Without hard study, there would be no simple invention. (Yugoslav proverb)

50. Whoever enjoys too much has no time to study. (French proverb)

51. Whoever wants to know more must sleep less. (Armenian proverb)

52. Knowledge is like spring water under the sand and gravel. The deeper you dig, the clearer the spring water becomes. (Danish proverb)

53. Knowledge requires repeated exploration, and land requires hard work. (Nepalese proverb)

54. Learning is like driving a car to climb a mountain. If you don’t advance, you will retreat.

(Japanese proverb)