1. If you want to succeed, use perseverance as your good friend, experience as your counselor, caution as your brother, and hope as your sentinel.
2. Books are as rich as the sea, and they can be found in all department stores. People's energy cannot be absorbed at the same time, but they can only get what they want. Therefore, I hope that scholars will seek it one at a time. - (Su Shi) "A Brief Story of Dongpo's Collected Works"
3. When reading text, you must read it in large sections, keep your spirit up, your muscles and bones upright, and don't be sleepy, as if there is a sword behind you. It is necessary to understand a paragraph. If you hit the beginning, the tail should be the same. If you hit the tail, the head should be the beginning. Don't press the book and you will be there, and cover the book and forget it.
--(Zhu Xi) "The Complete Collection of Zhu Zi's Language Classes"
4. There are three ways to read, namely, the heart, the eyes, and the mouth. If your mind is not here, your eyes will not be able to read carefully. If your mind is not focused, it will just read and recite. You will never remember it, and it will not last long. Among the three arrivals, the heart is the most urgent. Once the heart has arrived, won’t the eyes and mouth not care?
--(Zhu Xi) "Xunxue Zhaigui"
5. For people who have learned a lot of vocabulary that is useless to them, or who have learned a lot of vocabulary but cannot use it. People, like a carpenter who has a large box of tools but cannot use them, are not as good as a carpenter who has few tools but can use them freely.
--(West) "Language Education"
6. There are three major principles for scholarship: be knowledgeable, read more, and experiment frequently. --(Debraugley)
7. Learning is more valuable than knowledge. … It is better to know ten things but not reach the ground than to know one thing but reach the ground.
--(Dai Zhen) "Chronology of Mr. Dai Dongyuan"
8. A person who is omnipotent is really capable of nothing, and an expert who is expert in everything is really expert in nothing. - "Tao Fen's Collected Works"
9. Intensify your study, grasp the center, and prefer to be precise rather than miscellaneous, and to be specialized rather than numerous. --(Zhou Enlai) "Selected Works of Zhou Enlai"
10. People are alive, but books are dead. A living person can read a dead book and learn it alive. If you read a dead book to read a living person, you can read a person to death. - (Guo Moruo) "Inscriptions for Visitors on a Tour in Liyuan of Taihu Lake"
11. When I read books about topics that I don't understand, the method I use is to first find out the superficial meaning of the topic. For insights, skim through many pages and chapters before re-reading from the beginning in order to gain sophisticated knowledge. I know the beginning of the book just as it ends. This is the only correct solution I can introduce to you. --(Di Cigen) "The Logic of Dialectics"
12. What matters is not the quantity of knowledge, but the quality of knowledge. Some people know a lot, but they don't know the most useful things. --(Tolstoy)
13. Find something in the books you read that can lead you to the depths, and throw away everything else, which is to throw away the overburdened mind. and anything that lures you away from the point. --(Einstein)
14. Learning and doing are organically linked. To learn, you must think, and to understand, you must do it. Only by doing can you see whether you are truly true. Learned the ropes. Otherwise, even if you read a lot, it will just become a dead library.
--(Xie Juezai) "Young People Should Study Hard"
15. We read automatically, that is, read as a hobby. It is probably useless to ask others for advice. We have to read it first, and then Decide to enter one or more specialized subjects that you love; but there are disadvantages to studying exclusively, so you must get in touch with the real society to make the books you read come alive.
--(Lu Xun) "Miscellaneous Readings"
I hope you will adopt it, thank you!