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Famous sayings and aphorisms from ancient scholars

1. Good scholars, if the king of Qi were to eat a chicken, he would eat dozens of its soles and then its feet. ——"Lu Shi Chun Qiu Yong Zhong".

A person who is good at learning is like King Qi eating chicken, he must be satisfied with dozens of chicken feet. This sentence means that scholarship should take into account the strengths of all schools of thought.

2. Scholars learn well and do well. ——"Salt and Iron Theory·Shen Han"

A scholar should read widely and absorb correct and useful knowledge from it.

3. Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles. ——Dong Qichang's "Painting Purpose"

Be diligent in reading, and at the same time go to nature to observe. This sentence shows that it is very important for scholarship to be well-read and dedicated to practice.

4. If you practice daily, you will never forget what you have learned; if you encourage yourself, you will not fall down. ——Xu Qian of the Han Dynasty, "Zhonglun·Scholarship".

Degenerate: fall, become bad. If you review every day, you will not forget what you have learned. If you encourage yourself often, your thoughts and behavior will not deteriorate. This sentence points out that review and self-encouragement have great internal driving force and are of great significance to one's knowledge growth and self-cultivation.

5. He has many talents but is still able to put them into practical use after decades of practice. This is because of his teachings. ——Zhang Yue's "Cottage Principles" of the Ming Dynasty.

There are many talents and honest customs, and we can still benefit from it in more than ten years. This is all due to the benefits brought by education.

6. The teacher is not the Tao, and the Tao is not the teacher; the teacher is not the learner, and the learner is not the teacher. ——"Shi Shuo" by He Xinyin in the Ming Dynasty.

Teachers are not the same as truth, but without teachers, there is no way for the truth to be known. Teachers are not the same as knowledge, but without teachers, knowledge cannot be made simple and clear.