Climb Mount Tai and make the world small.

Warring States Period·Meng Ke's "Mencius: Devotion to the Heart". The general meaning of this sentence is: Once you climb Mount Tai, you feel that the world is small. Mencius's original words are: "Confucius climbed up Dongshan (referring to Mengshan, in the south of today's Mengyin County, Shandong) and Xiaolu, ~, so it is difficult for those who look at the sea to be water, and it is difficult for those who swim in the gate of the sage to speak." This sentence is commonly used today. It is a metaphor that you can see far if you stand high; or it means that people with more knowledge and experience have a higher vision and look down upon ordinary things.

Meng Ke, a thinker, educator, and representative figure of Confucianism during the Warring States Period Mencius "Mencius: Devoting Your Heart"

Those who travel more will gain more knowledge. Famous quotes from the British historian Thor Fuller

Use a tube to see the sky, and use a shield to measure the sea.

See Ban Gu's "Han Shu·Dongfang Shuo Zhuan". Tube: bamboo tube, bamboo tube. Peep: Look. Li (lí Li): scoop. The general meaning of these two sentences is: It is stupid to use a bamboo tube to peek at the sky and a ladle to measure the sea. The vast universe and the vast Milky Way are endless. Trying to peek through a tube is like looking at the sky from a well, and you can only see a few stars. The boundless sea stretches as far as the eye can see. It would be ridiculous to try to measure it with a gourd. These two sentences vividly describe the thinking method of narrow vision and partial generalization, and have been summarized into the idiom "a glimpse of the world", which is used to describe narrow and short-sightedness.

Historian Ban Gu of the Eastern Han Dynasty wrote "Han Shu·Dongfang Shuo Zhuan"

Use a tube to peer into the sky and a cone to point to the earth.

See "Zhuangzi Autumn Waters". Pipe: refers to bamboo pipe. Point to the ground: Point to the ground and measure. The general meaning of these two sentences is: look at the sky from a bamboo tube and measure the earth with an awl. To do a job well and do something well, working conditions and working methods are very important. Just as the Analects of Confucius says, "If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools." If you want to see the sky and use it, you want to When using a cone to measure the land, first of all, the tool used is wrong, and secondly, the method used is wrong, so it is difficult to achieve the goal. It has a similar meaning to "Guan Piao Li Xie", which means that to do something well, you must pay attention to the working conditions and working methods. . "Peering into the sky with a tube" is also often used to describe a person who cannot see much and has a short-sightedness.