Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study.
——Francis Bacon， British philosopher
天生的才幹如同天生的植物一樣，需要靠學習來修剪。
——英國哲學家F.培根
Never too old to learn.
——Thomas Middleton， British writer
活到老，學到老。
——英國作家T.密德爾頓
Reading good books is like having a conversation with the highly worthy persons of the past who wrote them； indeed， it is like having a prepared conversation in which those persons disclose to us only their thinking.
——Runes Descartes， French philosopher and mathematician
讀好書，好像是在同昔日那些極其令人敬重的著書者們交談；的確，那很像是在享受一篇經
過準備的談話，作者們在那種談話之中，隻向我們吐露他們的見解。
——法國哲學家、數學家R.笛卡爾
The three foundations of learning： seeing much， suffering much， and studying much.
——Willa Cather， American writer
求學的三個基本條件：多觀察、多磨礪、多研究。
——美國作家W.卡瑟
The years teach much which the days never know.
——Ralph Waldo Emerson， American thinker
學問積年而成，而每日不自知。
——美國思想家R. W.愛默生
There is no royal road to learning.
——Anthony Trollope， British novelist
求學沒有平坦的大道。
——英國小說家A.特羅洛普
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
——Edmund Burke， British statesman
學而不思，猶如食而不化。
——英國政治家E.伯克
Turn off the TV and read great books， they open doors in your brain.
——Richard Wolkomir， American writer
關掉電視，閱讀偉大的著作，它會啟開你的智慧之門。
——美國作家R.沃克摩