Reading content of famous quotes and aphorisms

1. Enjoy reading without asking for good fame. ——Wang Yongbin

2. Reading is to the spirit just as exercise is to the body. ——Edison

3. Having time to read, and having time to read, is happiness; having no time to read, having time, but having no book to read, is distress. ——Moyer

4. Reading is to wisdom what gymnastics is to body. ——Edison

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

6. If a bird wants to fly high, it flaps its wings first; if a man wants to make progress, he first reads. ——Li Kuchan

7. Read for the rise of China. ——Zhou Enlai

8. Reading is learning, and using is also learning, and it is more important learning. ——Mao Zedong

9. Always have a pencil and notebook with you. Write down all the wonderful places and words you encounter when reading and talking. ——Leo Tolstoy

10. Don’t read too much, but think more. This kind of reading has benefited me a lot. ——Rousseau

11. Read for fun. —— Somerset Maugham

12. If you don’t know the taste of reading, it is better to sit in a high cabinet; you are a stupid fish, eating dross all day long. ——Yuan Mu

13. If you read excessively or endlessly without thinking, what you have read will not be unforgettable, and most of it will eventually disappear. ——Schopenhauer

14. Reading is like mining, "mining for gold in the sand." ——Zhao Shuli

15. If you like reading, you don’t ask for deep explanations. ——Tao Yuanming

16. Reading is not for eloquence and refutation, nor for credulity and blind obedience, but for thinking and weighing. ——Bacon

17. It all depends on human effort: one year can be equal to two or three years, for example, you spend 17 or 8 hours reading every day; conversely, two or three years can be equal to one year, or even longer than one year. Still less, for example, I only spend less than five or six hours a day reading. I am determined to spend 16 to 18 hours a day reading anthologies of Chinese dynasties. ——Cai Shangsi

18. In reading, you want to be refined but not knowledgeable, and you want to be focused rather than miscellaneous. ——Huang Tingjian

19. I will never be satisfied at any time. The more I read, the more deeply I feel dissatisfied and the more I feel that I am lacking in knowledge. Science is endlessly mysterious. ——Marx

20. When reading, you should think for yourself and make your own decisions. ——Lu Xun

21. Cutting through walls to steal light, gathering fireflies to make bags; enduring poverty to study, making money and money. ——Xu Mingkui

22. Sometimes reading is a clever way to avoid thinking. ——Hulps

23. Reading makes up for the deficiencies of nature, and experience makes up for the deficiencies of reading. ——Bacon

24. What you learn on paper will eventually make you realize it is shallow, but you will definitely know that this matter must be carried out. ——Lu You

25. A truth learned purely through reading has a relationship with us just like prosthetics, dentures, wax noses or even artificial skin grafts. And the truth gained by independent thinking is like our natural limbs: they alone belong to us. ——Schopenhauer

26. Reading should be playful. ——Cheng Hao

27. When it comes to reading, quantity is not the first priority. What is important is the quality of the book and the degree of thinking it arouses. ——Franklin

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

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

30. The same goes for reading other books. You still have to think and observe by yourself. If you only read books, it will become a bookcase. Even if you find it interesting, the interest is actually gradually hardening and dying. ——Lu Xun

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

32. Read a hundred times and its meaning will appear by itself. ——Romance of the Three Kingdoms

33. To establish one’s life is to establish one’s studies first, and to establish one’s studies is to read. ——Zhu Xi

34. Reading as a young man is like gazing at the moon through a gap; reading in middle age is like looking at the moon in a court; reading as an old man is like playing with the moon on the stage. All are based on the depth of experience and the depth of what is gained.

——Zhang Chao