"If you want to know the taste..." - Quote by Mao Zedong
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.
More by Mao Zedong
“The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.”
“The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.”
“Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.”
More on Experience
“Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.”
“I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.”
“Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.”
More on Knowledge
“We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.”
“We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.”
“Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it acknowledges no limits to its projects. Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another.”