01. People who can absorb necessary nutrients are healthier than those who eat more. Similarly, real scholars are often not people who read a lot of books, but people who read useful books. —— Aristi

02. Books are the best anesthetic for the soul. ——Chambers

03. People can’t live without books just like they can’t live without air. ——Korolev

04. Books are the precious wealth of the world and the outstanding heritage of the country and history. ——Thoreau

05. Books are a huge power. ——Lenin

06. Books are the treasure house of human thoughts. ——Ushensky

07. Learning does not mean imitating something, but mastering skills and methods. ——Gorky

08. Real books should be the product of night and silence, not the fruit of day and chat. ——Marcel Proust

09. Readers’ likes and dislikes can determine the fate of a book. ——Morus

10. Bad books are like bad friends, they may kill you. ——Fielding

11. Sometimes reading is a clever way to avoid thinking. ——Helps

12. A book lover will definitely not lack a loyal friend, a good mentor, a lovely companion, and a graceful comforter. ——Issac Barrow

13. In general, to read a book, you must first read it thoroughly so that all the words seem to come from my mouth; then think carefully so that all the meanings seem to come from me. Heart, then you can gain something. ——(Song Dynasty) Zhu Xi

14. Books are mentors for young people and nurses for the elderly. In times of silence, books make us happy and stay away from all pain. ——Collier

15. Books are the experiences of previous generations. ——Labray

16. People who do not read will stop thinking. —— Diderot

17. Books make us the inheritors of the spiritual life of previous eras. ——Qin Ninge

18. Don’t read without writing. ——Xu Teli

19. Learning is like talent. If you don’t make progress every day, you will retreat every day. ——Zuo Zongtang

20. If you don’t know the taste of reading, it is better to sit in a high cabinet; what a stupid fish, you will eat dross all day long. ——Yuan Mu

21. The influence of people is short and weak, but the influence of books is broad and far-reaching. ——Pushkin

22. A book full of fallacies may be an interesting book; and a book without any fallacies may be a very boring book. ——Goldsmith

23. Books are not only life, but also the source of cultural life in the present, past and future. ——Kufayev