Mao Zedong Quotes

We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below, and we should listen carefully to the views of the cadres at the lowest levels. Be a pupil before you become a teacher; learn from the cadres at the lower levels before you issue orders.

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

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

Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

I want to learn from everybody.

I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that which is best, and not so stand in their own opinion as if they could not err.

I'm one of those people who think I can learn something from everybody.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

If I know somebody's right about something I take it from them.

Humility enables us to learn from each other.

No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.

It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.

I never met a person from whom I did not learn something.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.