If you have read thousands of books but don’t have a suitable plan, you will be like a man who suddenly got rich and it will be quite difficult to spend money. ---Zheng Banqiao

Knowing the past but not knowing the present is called sinking. Knowing the present but not knowing the past is called blindness. ---Wang Chong

If you give a general outline, thousands of eyes will see it, and if you interpret a volume, all chapters will be clear. ---Zheng Xuan

Knowledge is mainly acquired by taking the initiative, not by "teaching". ---Qian Sanqiang

Be tireless in learning and teaching. ---Confucius

The most serious problem in studying is the desire to haste. The kungfu is dense and uninterrupted, not unhurried. ---Lu Long [Qing Dynasty]

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 or sea. ---Xun Kuang

Books are the summary of human knowledge. Books are the nourishment of the world. ---Shakespeare

A good book is a good friend, and this will always be the case today and tomorrow. ---Tapa (UK)

Books are beacons standing in the vast ocean of time. ---Whipple (USA)

Live with books and never sigh. ---Romain Rolland

The more I read, the closer books bring me to the world, and the brighter and more meaningful life becomes to me. ---Gorky

Books are ships of thought sailing in the waves of the times. They carefully transport precious cargo to one generation after another. ---French Bacon

Reading is to wisdom what gymnastics is to body. ---Addison [British writer]

When we read a good book for the first time, we seem to have found a friend; when we read this book again, it seems that we have found a friend again. Reunited with old friends. ---Voltaire

Ideal books are the key to wisdom. ---Leon Tolstoy

I will never be satisfied at any time. The more I read, the more deeply I feel dissatisfied and the more I feel that I am lacking in knowledge. ---Marx

Books are this tool for transforming the soul. What mankind needs is enlightening nourishment. And reading is exactly this kind of nourishment. ---Hugo

Like reading is equivalent to changing the lonely hours in life into moments of great enjoyment.

---Montesquieu