From the east to the sea, when will the rivers return to the west? If a young man does not work hard, the old man will be miserable. (Han Yuefu's "Long Song Xing")
To learn a hundred things, one must first be determined. (Zhu Xi)
The edge of a sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold.
The pen fell in the storm, and the poem became the weeping ghosts and gods. (Du Fu)
Bie Cai Pseudo Ti Qin Feng Ya, Zhuan Yiduo is your teacher. (Du Fu)
Extensive knowledge and apprehension, thick accumulation but thin hair. (Su Shi)
Learn it eruditely, interrogate it, think carefully, discern it clearly, and practice it diligently. ("Book of Rites")
If you don't climb a high mountain, you don't know how high the sky is; if you don't go to a deep stream, you don't know how thick the earth is. ("Xunzi")
If you don't fly, you will soar into the sky; if you don't sing, you will become a blockbuster. (Sima Qian)
Don’t worry about others but you don’t know yourself, and you don’t know others when you are worried. (Confucius)
If you don’t enter the tiger’s den, how can you catch the tiger’s cubs? (Book of the Later Han Dynasty)
If there is no blockage and no flow, it will not work. (Han Yu)
I don’t know the true face of Mount Lu, just because I am in this mountain. (Su Shi)
Don’t be afraid of the floating clouds covering your eyes, because you are at the highest level. (Wang Anshi)
Without rules, it is impossible to build a square garden.
(Mencius)