1. Books are your best friends. When you encounter any difficulties in life, you can turn to it for help and it will never abandon you. ——Dude

2. Don’t wait for a moment. The young man’s head will turn gray, and there will be no sorrow! ——Yue Fei

3. Relying on photographic memory for reading is the most unhelpful thing. ——Zheng Banqiao

4. Doubt is the key to knowledge. ——Proverb

5. Anyone who reads useless books is just playing with things and losing his ambition. ——Wang Yu

6. You should understand the world through reading. ——Ni Yuanlu

7. Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles. ——Liu Yi

8. Reading is to wisdom as gymnastics is to body. ——Proverb

9. It is better to understand a page than to read a volume hastily. ——Macaulay

10. Reading makes up for the lack of nature, and experience makes up for the lack of reading. ——Bacon

11. Reading is the best learning. Following the thoughts of great men is the most interesting science. ——Pushkin

12. The reason why I study and learn is that I want to be happy, improve my eyesight, and help my ears. ——Yan Zhitui

13. The organ of the heart is thinking, thinking is what you get, and if you don’t think, you can’t get it. ——Meng Ke

14. Seeking knowledge without learning is like a fish without a net. ——Ge Hong

15. One outline will make thousands of eyes open; one volume will be explained and many chapters will be clear. ——Zheng Xuan

16. He is sensitive and eager to learn, and he is not ashamed to ask questions. ——Confucius

17. If I read as much as others, I know as little as others. ——Hobbes

18. Books are tools for cultivating wisdom. ——Comenius

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

20. It is said that you have read too much, but you don’t know enough about things. ——Wang Anshi

21. Knowledge is light, ignorance is darkness. Study! ——Chekhov

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

——Goldsmith