1. Determination is the most important thing for a scholar. —— Sun Yat-sen

2. Education! Science! Learning to read is to light a torch; every syllable of every word emits sparks. ——Hugo

3. Reading in a young age is like gazing at the moon through a gap; reading in middle age is like looking at the moon in a courtyard; reading in old age is like playing with the moon on the stage. All are based on the depth of experience and the depth of what is gained. —— Zhang Chao

4. Don’t read too much, but think more. This kind of reading has benefited me a lot. ——Rousseau

5. If you read but cannot use it, the book you read is equivalent to waste paper. ——Washington

6. Work hard at reading and enjoy writing. ——Cheng Duanli

7. To apply what you have learned, you must first read with an open mind. ——Book excerpt

8. Read books to live, read books to live, read books to live. ——Guo Moruo

9. We can collect knowledge through reading, but we must use thinking to separate the chaff from the wheat. —— Fuside

10. Reading is not for eloquence and refutation, nor for credulity and blind obedience, but for thinking and weighing. —— Bacon

11. He likes to read and doesn’t ask for deep explanations. —— Tao Yuanming

12. The lights are ringing at the third watch and the fifth watch. It is when men study. Black hair does not know how to study early, and white hair regrets studying late. —— Yan Zhenqing

13. No one has ever read for the sake of reading. He can only read himself in books, discover himself in books, or check himself. ——Romain Rolland

14. Having time to read, and having time to read, is happiness; having no time to read, having time, but having no books to read, is distress. —— Moyer

15. Reading is easy, thinking is difficult, but without one of the two, it is useless. ——Franklin

16. Eat less to nourish your stomach, and read more to nourish your courage. —— Zhuang Zhou

17. When reading, you want to be refined but not knowledgeable, and you want to be focused rather than miscellaneous. —— Huang Tingjian

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

19. The poor must study more, and the rich must not forget about farming. ——Wang Yongbin

20. There are poems and books in the belly, and the spirit comes from China. Reading thousands of volumes can only lead to spiritual enlightenment. ——Su Shi

21. Scholars do not necessarily have knowledge. Real common sense is to know knowledge, be able to think, and be able to work. ——Xu Teli

22. People who don’t read will stop thinking. Everyone longs for knowledge. Once the desire for knowledge is extinguished in him, he ceases to be a human being. —— Nansen

23. Reading, this ordinary process that we take for granted, is actually a process of combining people’s souls with the great wisdom of all nations, ancient and modern. —— Gorky

24. Reading can cultivate a perfect person, talking can train an agile person, and writing can cultivate an accurate person. —— Bacon

25. Think deeply and ask questions when reading. If you just read without thinking, you may follow what others say and become a slave to books; or you may just read and read and gain little. ——Wang Zikun

26. My lifelong hobby. Apart from revolution, there is only good reading. If I don’t study for a day, I can’t live. —— Sun Yat-sen

27. It all depends on human effort: one year can be equal to two or three years, for example, you spend 17 or 18 hours studying every day; conversely, two or three years can be equal to one year, or even longer than one year. Still less, for example, I only spend less than five or six hours a day reading. I am determined to spend 16 to 18 hours a day reading anthologies of Chinese dynasties. ——Cai Shangsi

28. When reading, you should think for yourself and make your own decisions. —— Lu Xun

29. Reading is to wisdom what gymnastics is to body. ——Edison

30. Reading is the best way for me to get rid of the unpleasantness in life. There is no kind of distress that reading cannot dispel.

——Montesquieu