Famous aphorisms about learning from others:

1. Learning without thinking means nothing, thinking without learning means peril. ——Confucius

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

3. If a person with high talents is lazy by nature, that is, if he does not work hard to develop his talents, his achievements will not be great, and sometimes they will not be as good as his talents. He is a lower person. ——Contradiction

4. If you know a lot, you will be smart. If you win over your friends, you will learn easily. ——Wei Yuan

5. To study for learning, one must be patient and pay attention to it, and must not be careless. There are numerous heavy objects wrapped inside, with no chance of being seen. I must have gone to one level today and seen another one. I'll go to another level tomorrow and see another level. Remove all the skin to reveal the meat. Remove all the meat and see the bones. Only after removing all the bones can the marrow be revealed. ——Zhu Xi

6. Read more than ten thousand volumes, and write like a god. ——Du Fu

7. Work is accomplished by hard work but wasteful by play. Action is accomplished by thinking and destroyed by following. ——Han Yu

8. If you don’t accumulate steps, you can’t reach a thousand miles; if you don’t accumulate small streams, you can’t become a river. ——Xunzi

9. Without redoubled diligence, there will be neither talent nor genius. ——Mendeleev

10. Genius comes from hard work. ——Golky

11. Put mechanics first, and mechanics is based on reading. ——Ouyang Xiu

12. A drop of water that cuts through a stone does not mean great strength, but deep kung fu; good grades do not mean high talent, but hard work.

13. Although the sword is sharp, it will not be strong enough; although the talent is beautiful, it will not be good if it is not learned. ——Han Ying

14. Be knowledgeable and appreciative, accumulate thick and thin. ——Su Shi

15. If you don’t learn, you won’t succeed; if you don’t ask, you won’t know. ——Wang Chong

16. You should observe carefully in order to understand; you should work hard to understand in order to act. ——Romain Rolland

17. Genius is the ability to work hard and diligently without end. ——Carlyle

18. Learning knowledge alone is still a fool. ——Goethe

19. Smart people have long ears and short tongues. ——Fleger

20. Scholars study books and learn new ideas every time they see them. ——Zhang Zai