Mao Zedong

The more you study, the more you know. The more you know, the more you are confused.

All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality, they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are really powerful.

We must not be like women with bound feet, who grumble about the length of the road, but keep on walking.

The highest criterion of truth is revolutionary practice.

Without destruction, there can be no construction.

The world is ours, you are still young, and the world is yours. The world belongs to you. China's future belongs to you.

We should concentrate our forces to strike at one point.

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

We must learn to look at problems from all sides, seeing the reverse as well as the obverse side of things.

Fight no battle you are not sure of winning.

Let us be united, and we shall win.

There are two principles for the Communist: one is to be ruthless to the enemy, the other is to be kind to comrades.

We should rid our ranks of all impotent thinking.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Don't be afraid to make mistakes. You will make mistakes. That's how you learn.

The Red Army fears not the trials of the Long March, and a thousand mountains and ten thousand rivers are nothing.

The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord.

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

The more books you read, the more ignorant you become.