The famous sayings related to reading and studying are as follows:

1. Proficiency comes from hard work, and waste comes from play; action is achieved by thinking, and ruined by following. ——Han Yu

2. If you don’t write for a day, everything will be wasted. ——Li Xu

3. Don’t wait and see that your young head will turn gray and you will be filled with sorrow. ——Yue Fei

4. Books are like medicine. Good reading can cure stupidity. ——Liu Xiang

5. The lights are on at three and the chickens are on at five, which is when men are studying. Black-haired people don't know how to study hard early, and white-haired people regret studying late. ——Yan Zhenqing

6. There is no greater joy than reading, and nothing more important than teaching your children. ——"Proverbs Lianbi"

7. Reading unseen books is like finding a good friend; reading already read books is like meeting an old friend. ——"Lianbi of Proverbs"

8. My life has a limit, but my knowledge also has no limit. ——Zhuangzi

9. Be tireless in learning and teaching. ——Confucius

10. If you work hard and forget to eat, if you are happy and forget your worries, you don’t know that old age is coming. ——Confucius

11. Smart and eager to learn, not ashamed to ask questions. ——Confucius

12. Learning without thinking is a waste, thinking without learning is peril. ——Confucius

13. Isn’t it true that one should learn and practice from time to time? ——Confucius

14. Those who know are not as good as those who are good at it, and those who are good at it are not as good as those who are happy. ——Confucius

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

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

17. If you read without knowing, then think; if you think without knowing, then read. ——Zhu Xi

18. Learning does not care about reading, but if you don’t read, the meaning will not be clear. ——Zhu Xi

19. Apply one and infer three, hear one and know ten, and the scholar has studied deeply and is familiar with the principles, and then he can integrate them and understand them, so that he can achieve this. ——Zhu Xi

20. There is no other way to study, but to be diligent and open-minded, and to play it repeatedly and carefully, which is the way to achieve success. ——Zhu Xi

21. In order to learn, don’t start with theory; if you want to learn theory, you must first read. ——Zhu Xi

22. (Reading) For example, if you chew food calmly, its taste will be long; if you chew and swallow it, you will not know the taste. ——Zhu Xi

23. Those who have no doubts in reading must be taught to have doubts; those who have doubts must have no doubts. Only then can they make progress. ——Zhu Xi

24. To establish oneself, one should first establish one’s studies, and to establish one’s studies, one should take reading as the basis. ——Ouyang Xiu

25. Strong knowledge and extensive knowledge are enough to understand the past and present. ——Ouyang Xiu