1. My lifelong hobby, apart from revolution, is reading. If I don't study for a day, I can't live. ——Sun Yat-sen

2. Read more than ten thousand volumes, and write like a god. ——Du Fu

3. Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles. ——Gu Yanwu

4. There is no other way to study, but to be determined and open-minded, and to play it repeatedly and carefully will be effective. ——Zhu Xi

5. If you don’t have any hobbies in reading, you can do as much as you can. If you don't read a lot of books first, you will be at a loss or lose your preference. Go broad before going deep, and be broad before becoming specialized. ——Lu Xun

6. The method of reading is to proceed step by step, read thoroughly and think deeply. ——Zhu Bo

7. Reading should be done step by step; read a book only when you are familiar with it, and do not be reckless, as it is useless to read too many books. ——Hu Juren

8. Reading is learning, excerpting is organizing, and writing is creating. ——Wu Han

9. You cannot read books with faith without thinking. You must boldly ask questions, be diligent in excerpting data, analyze data, and find out the interrelationships. This is a way to learn. ——Gu Jiegang