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 of us are together, there must be 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, one must read history. ——Li Guangting

15. Don’t waste time, the only good thing in life is reading. ——Weng Sen