Needles become sharper with use, and minds become keener with exercise.
Hard study is a good method for acquiring knowledge. — Cai Shangsi
After four years of university, you will establish your identity through thinking, seek truth through learning, experience autonomy through independence, master time through planning, hone expression through communication, taste maturity through friendship, gain value through practice, extract joy from interests, and obtain strength from pursuits. — Li Kaifu
A person who does not learn is like barren land that yields no grain.
Observe those who are ahead of you and see why they lead; learn from their methods. Only the busy can get things done well; the rigid only look for shortcuts. The indecisive, even if they make a decision, cannot see it through to the end.
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with pain, afflicts his muscles and bones, starves his body, exposes him to want, and puts him to work to frustrate his undertaking. In this way, Heaven stirs his heart, hardens his nature, and supplies his deficiencies.
The purpose of education is to enable every person to have the willingness to do what they ought to do.
To know the pain that power brings, ask those who hold it; to know the pleasure that power brings, ask those who chase it: The pain brought by power is real, while the pleasure brought by power is merely imagined.
There is only one path in life that cannot be refused — that is the path of growth.
Learning is the treasure of the body, and Confucianism is the precious jewel at the table. Look at those who become prime ministers; they must be readers. Author: 'Poem for Prodigies · Exhortation to Study'
For those who wish to display merit and spread glory, nothing is better than learning. Author: Wang Fu (Han Dynasty)
Eight or nine-tenths of human actions are habits, and most of these habits are formed in early childhood. Therefore, special attention should be paid to the formation of habits during childhood. However, habits are not uniform; there are good ones and bad ones. If habits are cultivated well, one will benefit from them for a lifetime; if habits are cultivated poorly, one will suffer from them for a lifetime.
