Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas),… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Conditions are changing all the time, and to adapt one's thinking to the new conditions, one must study. Even those who have… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Those experienced in work must take up the study of theory and must read seriously; only then will they be able to… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Now, there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Education in democracy must be carried on within the Party so that members can understand the meaning of democratic life, the meaning… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment... Whenever soldiers… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as teachers, learning… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In the struggle to defend the legacy of Leninism . . . [Stalin] proved himself to be an outstanding Marxist-Leninist fighter. . . .… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can apply the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
![“In the struggle to defend the legacy of Leninism . . . [Stalin] proved himself to be an outstanding Marxist-Leninist fighter. . . . Stalin's works should, as before, be seriously studied . . . [to] see what is correct and what is not.” quote by Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2af/mao-zedong-1123_fighter_in-the-struggle-to-defend-the-legacy-of_67510.jpg)
