Read the book a hundred times, and its meaning will become apparent. This is a famous saying written by Chen Shou.

Original text: Dong Yu, whose courtesy name is Jizhi, is quiet and eager to learn. If a person is a scholar and refuses to teach, he must first read it a hundred times. If you read it a hundred times, its meaning will become apparent. According to scholars, if you are suffering from thirst for a long time, you should be relieved when you encounter words. Or ask about the meaning of Sanyu, when it comes to winter, it means more than a year, night means more than a day, and rain means more than a hour.

Translation: Dong Yu, courtesy name Jizhi, has an honest and honest character and is very studious. Scholars nearby asked him to give lectures, but he refused to teach. However, he told them that the meaning of reading will be self-evident if he reads it a hundred times. The person asking for advice said that what you said made sense, but he was suffering from lack of time. Dong Yu said that he should use more than three seconds. Someone asked what Sanyu was, and Dong Yu said Sanyu was three kinds of free time. At night, when it was inconvenient to work in the fields, this was the free time in the day.

Read the book a hundred times and its meaning will automatically reveal the relevant sentences

1. Learning is like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. I have read hundreds of thousands of books and written like a god. If jade is not polished, it will become useless. If a person does not learn, he does not know righteousness. He is sensitive and eager to learn, and he is not ashamed to ask questions.

2. Time flies like an arrow, and the sun and moon fly like a shuttle. Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. He who knows others is wise, and he who knows himself is wise. A saint will surely make a mistake if he thinks a lot.

3. The method of reading is to proceed step by step, read thoroughly and think carefully. 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.

4. When three people are walking together, there must be my teacher. Choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones. If you don’t read for three days, thorns will grow in your mouth. If you don't play for three days, your hands will grow thorns.

5. Reading is easy, thinking is difficult, but if one of them is missing, it will be useless. I am familiar with three hundred Tang poems, and I can recite them even if I can't compose them.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia - Read the book a hundred times to see its meaning