Horace Mam: A house without books is like a room without windows.
Edmuncl Burke: Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
爱默生:不必告诉我你曾经读过什么书,我可以从你的言谈中察知。不必告诉我你同什么人交往,我可以从你的举止中看出。
Emerson: Do not tell me the books you have read,let me glean it from your conversation .Do not tell me of the people you associate with,let me observe it by your manners.
培根:读书时不可存心诘难作者,不可尽信书中之言,亦不可段章取义,而应推敲细思。
Francis Bacon: Read not to contradict and confute,not to believe and take for granted,nor to find talk and discourse ,let to weigh and consider.
培根:有些书可浅尝辄止,有些书可囫囵吞枣,但有少量书需细细咀嚼,慢慢消化;换言之,有些书可只读其章节,有些书则可大致浏览,有少量书则需通篇细读并认真领悟。
:Francis Bacon Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,and some few to be chewed and disgested; that is some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
弗吉尼亚·沃尔芙:那些浪费了我们的时间和情感的书难道不是犯罪吗?那些粗制滥造的书、散发着陈腐之气与糜烂之气的书的作者们,难道他们不是社会的最阴险狡诈的敌人,腐化分子和败类吗?
培根:读史使人明智,读诗使人灵秀,数学使人周密,哲学使人深刻,伦理学使人庄重,逻辑修辞之学使人善辩。
Francis Bacon: Histories make men wise; poets, witty, the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral grave; logiand rhetoric,able to contend.
歌德:经验丰富的人读书用两只眼睛,一只眼睛看到纸面上的话,另一只眼睛看到纸的背面。
丹尼尔:发现地球,大陆和海洋形状最大障碍不在于无知,而在于自以为是。
斯宾诺莎:那些告诉人们何谓最高的和最好的事物的书籍都是同样神圣的,不论他们是用什么样的语言写成,或属于哪个民族。
Goethe:The more you read,the more healthy and brave your spirit will be.
鲁迅:只看一个人的著作,结果是不大好的;你就得不到多方面的优点。必须如蜜蜂一样,采过许多花,这才能酿出蜜来,倘若盯在一处,所得就非常有限、枯燥了。
Lu Xun: It is not good only to read one person’s works and you can’t get advantages of multiaspects, just like a bee that gathers many flows to make honey. It is very limited and boring if stay on one flower.
柯里尔:书籍是青年人的指南,老年人的娱乐。孤寂时,书籍给我们力量,使我们摆脱精神负担。
Jeremy Collier: Books are a guide in youth and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude ,and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
迪米内特:读书对大多数人而言是高尚的名称掩盖下消磨时间的可耻方式。
Ernest Dimnet: Reading, to most people, means an as hamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.
Dmity Lvanovich Mendeleyev: What is genius? Lifelong efforts makes genius.
梭罗:有多少人由一本书的阅读而开始其人生的新时代呀!
Thoreau: How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!
培根:读书足以怡情,足以博彩,足以长才。其怡情也,最见于独处幽居之时;其博彩也,最见于高谈阔论之中;其长才也,最见于处世判事之际。
郭沫若:人是活的,书是死的。活人读死书,可以把书读活。死书读活人,可以把人读死。