Mao Zedong Quotes

Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never complete.

The information is in the people, not in your head.

Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Leaders are made in the image of the masses.

I trust the American people. They almost always get it right …

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob ... but to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty.

Be humble; draw experience from the masses; be linked with the stance of the masses; and be close to the masses.

My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: "The people are my God.

Simple idea with powerful consequences: everyone who intersects your life knows something you don't.

When a species wants to tap the collective intelligence of a population, they don't take a poll; they don't take a vote. They form a real-time system.

We developed a technology called artificial swarm intelligence, which is all about tapping the inherent knowledge, wisdom, intuition of groups.

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through, so as to form correct ideas of leadership-such is the basic method of leadership.

No man is so wise that he cannot benefit by talking things out with others.

The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience...was disparaged.

All human interactions are opportunities either to learn or to teach.

Crowds of minds can be wise, but crowds of bodies just aren't.

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.