Interpretation: reading history can make people understand things and have foresight; Reading poems can make people smart and witty.
Source: [English] Francis Bacon on learning.
History makes people wise; Poet wit; Mathematics is subtle; Natural philosophy is profound; Moral grave; Logic and rhetoric can be argued. ?
English translation: reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes them witty, mathematics makes them careful, natural philosophy makes them deep, ethics makes them grave, and logical rhetoric makes them able to contend.
English interpretation: reading history can make people understand things and have foresight; Reading poems makes people clever and witty; Learning mathematics can make people thoughtful and meticulous; Natural philosophy can make people thorough; Ethics can make people not casual and frivolous; Learning logical rhetoric can make people good at rhetorical debate.
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Other famous sayings about learning
1, learning is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat. -"Augmented Sage"
Interpretation: Learning is like sailing against the current. If you don't try to paddle forward, you will definitely go backwards.
2, learning without thinking is useless, thinking without learning is dangerous. -Confucius The Analects of Confucius
Interpretation: learning without thinking is useless. If you want to learn, you will get nothing.
3. Be good at thinking, thinking and rethinking when learning knowledge. -Einstein
We must set ourselves such tasks: first, study; Second, study; Third, study. -Lenin
In the long river of seeking truth, only learning, continuous learning, diligent learning and creative learning can cross the mountains. -Hua
6. Learn to be as loving as a mother. It raises children with pure and gentle happiness. It may be a sin to ask it for extra remuneration. -Balzac
7. We should all learn something from our predecessors and peers. Even the greatest genius will never achieve anything if he wants to deal with everything with his unique inner nature. -Goethe
8. Now, what I am afraid of is not the hard and severe life, but that I can no longer learn and know the world I am eager to know. For me, study or die. Lomonosov
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