Mao Zedong Study Quotations

Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

Conditions are changing all the time, and to adapt one's thinking to the new conditions, one must study. Even those who have a better grasp of Marxism and are comparatively firm in their proletarian stand have to go on studying, have to absorb what is new and study new problems.

If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

Complacency is the enemy of study.

Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.

Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.