When reading, think deeply and ask questions. If you just read without thinking, you may follow what others say and become a slave to books; or you may just read and read and gain little. ——Wang Zikun

What should you do when you study? Discern its great meaning, cultivate yourself and govern others, observe its subtle words, and put the good and essence into spiritual use. ——Wang Fuzhi

Always carry a pencil and notebook with you. Write down all the wonderful places and words you encounter while reading and talking. ——Leo Tolstoy

If you read excessively or endlessly without thinking, what you have read cannot be remembered deeply, and most of it will eventually disappear. ——Schopenhauer

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. Science is endlessly mysterious. ——Marx

Reading is not for eloquence and refutation, nor for credulity and blind obedience, but for thinking and weighing. ——Bacon

Reading is the best way for me to get rid of the unpleasantness in life. There is no kind of distress that reading cannot dispel. ——Montesquieu

“A gentleman should not specialize in teaching, his responsibility is to teach people how to behave; students should not specialize in studying, his responsibility is to learn the way of life.”. ——Tao Xingzhi

Experienced people use two eyes to read. One eye sees the words on the paper, and the other eye sees the back of the paper. ——Goethe

Real reading wakes up the sleepy and chooses the appropriate goal for the undecided goal. Righteous books guide people on the right path and avoid going astray. ——Carnegie

The lights are ringing at the third watch and the fifth watch. It is when men are studying. Black-haired people do not know how to study early, and white-haired people regret studying late. ——Yan Zhenqing

Loving reading is equivalent to changing the lonely and boring time in life into moments of great enjoyment. ——Montesquieu

Reading can cultivate a perfect person, talking can train an agile person, and writing can create an accurate person. ——Bacon

If my childhood days could come back, I would stop wasting time and spend every minute reading. ——Tagore

The more you read, the less things remain in your mind, and the two are inversely proportional. He reads a lot, and his mind is like a blackboard filled with overlapping scribbles. ——Schopenhauer

Having time to read, and having time and having books to read, is happiness; having no time to study, having time and having no books to read, is distress. ——Moyer

When reading, I would like to stay in front of every beautiful thought, just like I stay in front of every truth. ——Emerson

Those who do not read will stop thinking. Everyone longs for knowledge. Once the desire for knowledge is extinguished in him, he ceases to be a human being. ——Nansen

Reading, this ordinary process that we take for granted, is actually a process in which people’s souls combine with the great wisdom of all nations, ancient and modern. ——Gorky

There are many empty talkers who read books just to "refute" others and loudly promote their own revolutionary spirit in order to jump in front of those more humble and serious comrades. ——Gorky

When it comes to reading, quantity is not the first priority. What is important is the quality of the book and the degree of thinking it arouses. ——Franklin

Reading as a young man is like gazing at the moon through a gap; reading in middle age is like looking at the moon in a court; reading in old age is like playing with the moon on the stage. All are based on the depth of experience and the depth of what is gained. ——Zhang Chao

The more you read without thinking, you will feel that you know a lot; and the more you read and think, the more clearly you will see , you know very little.

——Voltaire