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

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

3. If you don’t step on the muddy path, you won’t be able to step onto the road covered with flowers.

4. Bad books teach wrong concepts and make ignorant people even more ignorant.

5. If you can’t learn, learn; if you don’t know, ask; if you are ashamed to ask others, you will never make progress.

6. 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.

7. Don’t laugh at the iron tree. In order to bloom once, it makes a longer effort than other tree species.

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

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

10. Intelligence comes from hard work, and genius comes from accumulation.

11. Understanding your own ignorance means you have gained something.

12. Reading makes people become perfect people.

13. Work hard to know all the words in the world, and resolve to read all the books in the world.

14. Without learning, there is no way to expand talents, and without ambition, there is no way to achieve learning.

15. When the struggling feet crush their own hotbed, they open up a path of creation.

16. The more tortuous the road of struggle, the purer the soul.

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

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

19. The sweat of the cultivators is the milk that nourishes the growth of seeds.

20. Don’t be afraid of strong points when attacking a city. Don’t be embarrassed when studying. There are dangers in science and you can overcome them by fighting hard.

21. A person who is eager to ask questions is only five kinds of fools; a person who is ashamed to ask questions will be a fool for life.