The most popular article in Bacon's "Of Studies"

1. Reading makes you enriched, discussion makes you witty, notes make you accurate, reading history makes you wise, and reading poetry It makes people smart, mathematics makes people thoughtful, science makes people profound, ethics makes people solemn, and logic and rhetoric make people eloquent. Whatever you learn becomes your character. —— Bacon

2. But this sentence is actually the merger of two paragraphs of the original text. It is the translation of Francis Bacon’s famous article Of Study by the late Professor Wang Zuoliang of Beijing Foreign Studies University. It communicates with the original text in terms of "form" and "spirit". It is full of the charm and style of ancient Chinese poetry.

Reading make?a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact

man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need to have a great

memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he

read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth

not.

Reading makes you enriched, discussion makes you witty, and taking notes makes you accurate. Therefore, those who do not often take notes must have a strong memory, those who do not often discuss must be naturally smart, and those who do not often read must be deceived and skillful in order to be able to show their knowledge from ignorance.

Histories make men wise; poets witty; the

mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and

rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in morse. (Studeis go to make up

a man's character.)

3. Francis Bacon (Francis Bacon, 1561-1626), 1st Viscount St. Albans ( 1st Viscount St Alban), English Renaissance essayist and philosopher. A British materialist philosopher, the founder of experimental science, the founder of modern induction, and a pioneer in logically organizing scientific research procedures. His major works include "New Tools", "On the Advancement of Science" and "The Great Revival of Academics".

4. On Reading is an important article in "Bacon's Essays". Published in 1653 and collected in the book "Essays of Bacon". "Bacon's Essays" is the pioneer work of British essay literature. With its concise language, beautiful writing style, thorough reasoning, and repeated aphorisms, it occupies a very important position in the history of world literature.