Reading maketh a full man；conference a ready man；and writing an exact man；and，therefore，if a man write little，he had need have a great memory；if he confer little，he had need have a present wit；and if he read little，he had need have much cunning，to seem to know that he doth not.

By Francis Bacon

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

By Edmund Burke

讀書使人充實，討論使人機智，筆記使人嚴謹；因此，假若一個人很少做筆記，那他需要有超人的記憶；假若他很少討論，那他需要天資聰穎；而假若他很少讀書，那他需要有充分的狡詐來掩飾自己的無知。

——弗朗西斯·培根（1561—1626）。

讀書不思考，猶如吃飯不消化。

——埃德蒙·伯克（1729—1797）。十八世紀英國政治思想家、哲學家。他以非凡的雄辯之才和政治遠見而聞名于世。

編輯/楊明珠