1. Books are like medicine. Good reading can cure stupidity. ——Liu Xiang
2. If a gentleman is knowledgeable and examines himself every day, he will know clearly and act without fault. ——Xunzi
3. Talent must be learned. Without learning, there is no way to expand talents; without ambition, there is no way to achieve learning. ——Zhuge Liang
4. Although the genius is brilliant, it really needs to be revealed to the tomb to spread knowledge. ——Ge Hong
5. Seeking knowledge without learning is like fishing without a net. ——Ge Hong
6. If a scholar wants to declare his righteousness, he must first read his book. ——Wang Fu
7. When three people are walking together, there must be one who is my teacher. Choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones. ——Confucius
8. Read more than ten thousand volumes, and write like a god. ——Du Fu
9. I dare not do anything trivial, just because I have read running script. ——Tao Zongyi
10. If you don’t write for a day, everything will be ruined. ——Li Xu
11. If you don’t read for three days, you will feel that the language is tasteless. ——Zhu Shunshui
12. Learning does not care about reading, but if you don’t read, there will be no way to understand the meaning. ——Zhu Xi
13. Put mechanics first, and mechanics is based on reading. ——Ouyang Xiu
14. If you don’t study, you don’t understand. To be a governor, you must read history. ——Li Guangting
15. The Six Classics and Three Histories, hundreds of schools of thought, are not insignificant, they are all for governance. ——Su Shi
16. I read and learn because I want to be happy, improve my eyesight, and help my ears. ——Yan Zhitui
17. Knowledge is the crystallization of precious gems, and culture is the luster of gems. ——Tagore
18. The merits of heaven have their origins. Who means reading and remembering names? ——Guizhuang
19. Whatever you seek from reading, you will be able to understand things. ——Zhang Weiping
20. Opening the book is beneficial. ——Zhao Guangyi
21. You should understand the world through reading. ——Ni Yuanlu
22. Don’t wait for a while. The young man’s head will turn gray and he will feel empty and sad. ——Yue Fei
23. Reading is learning, excerpting is organizing, and writing is creating. ——Wu Han
24. Reading makes talents more human-like.
——Yan Wenjing