Bacon: The books you've read have shaped your character

Curiosity can be used as a pastime, as a decoration, or as a talent.

When you are lonely and lonely, reading can be a pastime. When you talk about it, knowledge can be decorated. When you act in the world, the right use of knowledge means strength.

People who understand the cause and effect of things are happy.

Although people with practical experience can handle individual affairs, if they want to look at the whole and plan the overall situation, they can only do it with knowledge.

Seeking knowledge too slowly will be lazy, seeking knowledge for the sake of decoration is self-deception, and doing things completely according to the rules of the book will become a paranoid nerd.

Curiosity improves people and nature, and experimentation improves knowledge itself.

Human nature is like wild flowers and plants, and learning is like pruning and transplanting.

Internship attempts can test the authenticity of the corrected knowledge itself.

The cunning despise learning, the foolish envy learning, and the wise are good at using it.

Knowledge itself does not tell man how to use it; the method of use is outside the book.

It's a skill. You can't learn it without experimentation. Don't read books for critical arguments, but don't trust books lightly.

The purpose of seeking knowledge is not to boast and show off, but to find the truth and enlighten wisdom.

Some knowledge only needs to be tasted, and some knowledge is only rough.

There are only a few specialized knowledge that needs to be studied in depth and carefully pondered.

Therefore, some books only need to read part of it, some books only need to know the outline, and for a few good books, they must be read intensively, carefully, and repeatedly.

Some books can be read by someone and then look at the summary of his notes. But this is limited to poor quality books. Otherwise a good book will become light and tasteless like distilled water!

Reading enriches one's mind, discussion makes one distinguish between right and wrong, and taking notes makes knowledge precise.

Therefore, if a person still has to take notes, his memory must be strong and reliable.

If a person is only willing to explore alone, his mind must be extra sharp. If someone does not read and wants to pretend to be knowledgeable, he must be very cunning to hide his ignorance.

Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people wise, calculus makes people precise, philosophy makes people profound, ethics makes people cultivated, and logical rhetoric makes people argumentative.

In short, "knowledge can shape a person's character".

Not only that, but all kinds of mental defects can be improved through curiosity.

Just as physical defects can be improved by exercise.

For example, playing ball is good for the waist and kidneys, archery can expand the chest and lungs, walking is helpful for digestion, riding makes people react quickly, and so on.

Similarly, a person who is not concentrating can study mathematics, because mathematics can go wrong if you are not careful.

A person who lacks analytical judgment can study scholastic philosophy, because this discipline is the most cumbersome dialectic. People who are not good at reasoning can study jurisprudence, and so on.

This defect in the mind can be cured by seeking knowledge.