Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

The commanders and fighters of the entire Chinese People's Liberation Army absolutely must not relax in the least their will to fight; any thinking that relaxes the will to fight and belittles the enemy is wrong.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again.

A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.