1. Books are the life of our time. ——Belinsky

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

3. Books are the life of our time. ——Belinsky

4. Reading must be done with concentration in order to see the truth. ——Xue Xuan

5. Life is about diligence, nothing can be gained without asking for anything. ——Zhang Heng

6. How pleasant it is to learn and practice from time to time! ——Confucius

7. Books are the ever-lasting lamp for people to accumulate wisdom. ——Curtis

8. There are three ways to read: the heart, the eyes, and the mouth. ——Zhu Xi

9. Read more, but don’t read too many books. ——Franklin

10. Play a thousand tunes and then the sound will dawn; watch a thousand swords and then recognize the weapon. ——Liu Xie

11. If human beings want to survive in competition, they must struggle. ——Sun Yat-sen

12. It is said that one has read too much, but does not know enough about things. ——(Song Dynasty) Wang Anshi

13. The road is long and long, and I will search up and down. ——Qu Yuan

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

15. Work is accomplished by hard work but wasteful by playfulness; success is achieved by thinking but destroyed by following. ——Han Yu

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

17. If you don’t study early, you will regret it later. ——"Duo of Qing Dynasty· Zaozaoge"

18. There are poems and books in the belly, and the spirit comes from China. After reading thousands of volumes, one can understand the spirit. ——(Song Dynasty) Su Shi

19. Treat every day of your life as the last day of your life. ——Helen Keller

20. Time is like water in a sponge. As long as you are willing to squeeze, there is always time. ——Lu Xun

21. In reading, you want to be refined but not knowledgeable, and you want to be focused rather than miscellaneous. ——(Song Dynasty) Huang Tingjian

22. A house without books is like a body without a soul. ——Cicero

23. Reading all good books means talking to many noble people. ——Goethe

24. Reading is to wisdom what gymnastics is to body. ——Addison

25. Intellectuals are better than illiterates, just as the living are better than the dead. ——Aristotle

26. The first sign of an educated mind is being good at asking questions. ——Plekhanov

27. Education worthy of the name is essentially character education. ——(Austria) Buber

28. The way to learn is not to learn the truth first; to learn the truth first, read. ——Zhu Xi

29. Knowledge is the only source of love and principles for human freedom. ——Webster

30. Reading too much will create some self-righteous and ignorant people. ——Lu Leng

31. There is no other way to study, but to be diligent and open-minded, and to play it repeatedly and carefully is to be effective.

——Zhu Xi