Chapter 1

1. Don’t read to death, or get into trouble with reading. ——Ye Shengtao

2. Don’t be afraid of reading less, just be afraid of not being able to remember it well. ——Xu Teli

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

4. Have sex with a brave person and read without words. ——Zhou Enlai

5. The reason for reading is to get rid of mediocrity. One day earlier will bring more excitement to life; one day later, one more day will be troubled by mediocrity. ——Yu Qiuyu

6. If life is compared to the artistic conception of creation, then reading is like sunshine. ——Chi Li

7. Reading is to build one’s own thoughts with the help of other people’s thoughts. ——Lu Bajin

8. Experienced people use two eyes to read. One eye sees the words on the paper, and the other eye sees the back of the paper. ——Goethe

9. Don’t be greedy for too much reading, but think more. This kind of reading has benefited me a lot. ——Rousseau

10. People who do not read will stop thinking. —— Diderot

Chapter 2

1. Reading is easy, thinking is difficult, but if one of the two is missing, it will be useless. ——Franklin

2. There are three things in reading, namely heart, eyes, and mouth. ——Zhu Xi

3. Determination is the most important thing for a scholar. ——Sun Yat-sen

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

5. Don’t read too hard, or read too hard. ——Ye Shengtao

6. Oh my goodness, the world is happy, I am writing on my desk all day long. ——(Song Dynasty) Ouyang Xiu

7. I may write or quit, and if I am exposed to the cold for ten years, even though I have studied for a hundred years, I have not seen any improvement. ——(Ming Dynasty) Wu Mengxiang

8. Read the book with great concentration; read it loudly if the text is poor and reasonable. ——"Collection of Couplets"

9. Xiao Yue moves the three-foot sword idly; Gu Deng studies hard at the fifth watch. ——"Collection of Couplets"

10. Reading gives people fun, brilliance and talent. ——Bacon

Chapter 3

1. A student without curiosity is like a bird without wings. ——Sadie

2. There is no cheaper entertainment or more lasting satisfaction than reading. ——Montaiju

3. Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people smart, mathematics makes people rigorous, physicists make people profound, ethics makes people solemn, logic and rhetoric make people People are good at discerning; all scholars have character. ——Bacon

4. Don’t be greedy for too much reading, but think more. This kind of reading has benefited me a lot. ——Rousseau

5. It all depends on human effort: one year can be equal to two or three years, for example, spending 17 or 18 hours a day reading; conversely, two or three years can also 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

6. A book lover will definitely not lack a loyal friend, a good mentor, a lovely companion, and a graceful comforter. ——Isaac Barrow

7. A bad book, like a bad friend, may hurt you. ——British proverb

8. A truth learned purely by 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

9. A diligent person reads till midnight; ivy circles the house and flowers bloom in the clouds. ——"Collection of Couplets"

10. Education! science! To learn to read is to light a torch; every syllable of every word sends out sparks.

——Hugo