created sense approved 尽信书不如无书/盡信書不如無書 · jìnxìnshūbùrúwúshū · better to have no books than to believe them completely — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
尽信书不如无书 / 盡信書不如無書
jìnxìnshūbùrúwúshū
better to have no books than to believe them completely
It is better to have no books at all than to believe everything that is written in them; one should read critically rather than following books blindly
尽 (literal) → 尽/盡 · jìn · completely 信 (literal) → 信 · xìn · to believe 书 (literal) → 书/書 · shū · book 不如 (literal) → 不如 · bùrú · not as good as 无 (literal) → 无/無 · wú · to not have 书 (literal) → 书/書 · shū · book
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition