Famous aphorisms and celebrity examples
1. Diligence and hard work:
(1) Genius is like this. Lifelong hard work will lead to genius. ——Mendeleev
Diligence leads to excellence in work, but playfulness leads to waste. ——Han Yu
There are roads in the mountain of books, and diligence is the path, and there is no limit to the sea of ??learning, and hard work is the boat.
(2) Wang Xizhi: When I came to the pond to study calligraphy, the water in the pond was completely black.
Kuang Heng: Chiseling the wall to borrow light. The firefly reflects the snow.
Ouyang Xiu studied hard "three times" (on the pillow, on the horse, and on the toilet), racing against time and cherishing the time.
2. Great ambition and determination:
(1) The three armies can seize the commander, but an ordinary man cannot seize the ambition. ——Confucius
Aim high. —— Zhuge Liang
When you are old and strong, you would rather move your heart with a white head; when you are poor and strong, you will not fall into the clouds. ——Wang Bo
Ambition and enthusiasm are the supporting wings of greatness. ——Goethe
(2) Chen Sheng: When he was young, he was not satisfied with being a servant cultivator. He had lofty ambitions, "How can a sparrow know the ambition of a swan?", and later led the first leader in history. A peasant uprising.
3. Have backbone (sacrifice one's life for righteousness):
(1) Riches and honors cannot be immoral, poverty and lowliness cannot be moved, and power cannot be surrendered. This is called a true man. ——Mencius
No one has ever died since ancient times, leaving a loyal heart to illuminate history. ——Wen Tianxiang
(2) Wen Tianxiang: Organized forces to resist the Yuan Dynasty, failed and was captured. Faced with the coercion and inducement of the Yuan Dynasty, he refused to surrender, and finally died heroically.
Zhu Ziqing: I would rather die than accept relief food from the United States.
4. Humility:
(1) Dissatisfaction is the upward wheel. —— Lu Xun
Modility makes people progress, and pride makes people fall behind. We should always remember this truth. —— Mao Zedong
(2) Confucius: "Ask about everything." When you see everything, you must humbly ask others for advice, and you will eventually become a saint.
5. Patriotism:
(1) We love our nation, which is the source of our self-confidence. ——Zhou Enlai
Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world.
I am the son of the Chinese people. I love my motherland and people deeply. ——Deng Xiaoping
(2) Wen Tianxiang, Zhu Ziqing (see above)
6. Truth:
(1) The road is long and long, but I will Search up and down. ——Qu Yuan
I love my teacher, and I love the truth even more. ——Aristotle
The pursuit of truth is more valuable than possessing truth. ——Einstein
(2) Bruno: a great scientist during the Italian Renaissance. He bravely defended and developed Copernicus' heliocentric theory, never flinched in the face of being burned at the stake, and sacrificed his precious life for the truth. A martyr for the truth.
7. Seeking knowledge:
(1) Seeking knowledge can be used as a pastime, as decoration, or to increase talents. ——Bacon
Reading can enrich people's minds, discussion can make people distinguish right from wrong, and taking notes can make knowledge accurate. ——Bacon
(2) Kong Yu (Kong Wenzi): sensitive and eager to learn, not ashamed to ask questions. This is why it is called "literary".
8. Dare to question and ask questions:
(1) Scholars must first understand doubts. ——Cheng Yi
Those who do not doubt when there is doubt have never learned; learning requires doubt. ——Zhang Zai
(2) Dai Zhen: He is good at asking questions. When he was a child, he read Zhu Xi’s "Great Learning Chapters" and asked when "Great Learning" was written and when Zhu Zi was born. The tutor told him that "The Great Learning" was written in the Zhou Dynasty and that Zhu Xi was a great Confucian in the Song Dynasty. He then asked how people in the Song Dynasty could know the meaning of the author more than a thousand years ago. He eventually became a great scholar in the Qing Dynasty.
Newton: Seeing the apple fall, he insisted on asking what happened, and finally created the theory of "gravity", which dominated human thought.
9. Trials and setbacks:
(1) If a jade is not polished, it will not become a useful tool; if a person does not learn, it will not work.
Wood will be straight if it is roped, and metal will be sharpened if it is sharpened.
(2) Sima Qian: After enduring the torture of castration and prison, he did not give up on himself and wrote the historical masterpiece "Historical Records" that will be famous throughout the ages.
A horse can leap forward but cannot take ten steps; a horse can drive ten times, but the merit lies in perseverance. If you persevere, the rotten wood will not break; if you persevere, you can carve metal and stone
If you don’t accumulate steps, you won’t be able to reach a thousand miles; if you don’t accumulate small streams, you won’t be able to build a river or a sea
The sea is open to all rivers, and it has room for it.
Edison's perseverance
Edison is known as the "King of Inventions" by the world. He provided mankind with about 2,000 large and small inventions in his life. The secret of his success is "diligence" and "perseverance". In order to find heat-resistant materials inside the light bulb, he tried about 6,000 fiber materials and finally found carbonized bamboo filaments. Although the first bamboo filament lamp was lit for 1,200 hours. But he continued to explore, persevere, and improve, and finally developed the tungsten lamp, which took 20 years.
In order to transform the easily corrosive sulfuric acid battery into a nickel-iron induction battery, he began to conduct experiments unremittingly in 1900. It took him 10 years and nearly 50,000 experiments before he succeeded. .
. The same is true for "difficulty". Facing a cliff, you won't be able to see a crack in a hundred years, but with an axe, you can advance inch by inch, you have to advance foot by foot, and keep accumulating. , the leap will come, and the breakthrough will follow. ---Hua Luogeng (China)