1. The lights are on at three and the chicken is on at five, which is when men are studying. Black-haired people don't know how to study diligently early, and white-haired people regret studying late. ——Yan Zhenqing's "Poem to Encourage Learning"
From midnight to the time when the rooster crows every day, it is the best time for boys to study. In their youth, they must know how to study hard and study diligently. But if you only know how to play and don't know how to study hard, you will regret when you are old that you didn't know how to study hard when you were young.
2. Reading through thousands of volumes, writing as if with dexterity - Du Fu's "Twenty-Two Rhymes from Wei Zuocheng"
Describes reading a lot of books, reading the books intensively and carefully over and over again , after reading it thoroughly, you will be able to use it easily when writing essays.
3. Work is accomplished by hard work, but wasteful by playfulness; success is achieved by thinking, and destroyed by casualness. ——Han Yu's "Explanation of Encouraging Learning"
To be diligent in studying, if you play all the time, it will be wasted. People's behavior depends on thinking before doing it. If you think of anything and do it casually, it will be ruined.
4. Don’t wait and see, as your young head turns gray and you feel empty and sad. ——Yue Fei of the Southern Song Dynasty, "The River is Red and the Crown is Angry"
Don't waste your years and grow gray as a young man, you can only regret and mourn alone.
5. To establish oneself, study is the first priority, and to study is based on reading. ——Ouyang Xiu, "Collected Works of Ouyang Wenzhong"
To cultivate one's self through reading, learning should be the most important task, and if one wants to teach knowledge, the knowledge in books should be the basis. In layman's terms, cultivating one's character begins with learning, and learning is based on reading.
6. If young people don’t work hard, old people will be sad. ——"Han Yuefu·Long Song Xing"
It means that if you don't work hard when you are young and strong, it will be useless to be sad when you are old.
7. Without learning, there is no way to expand talents, and without ambition, there is no way to achieve learning. ——Three Kingdoms·Zhuge Liang's "Book of Commandments"
It is difficult to increase your talents without learning, and it is difficult to achieve success in learning without determination.