Famous Quotes from Famous People

Man does not make himself not merely by all that he is born with, but by all that he receives from learning.

--Goethe

Man's genius is only a spark, to make it a blazing fire, which is only learning! Learn!!!

--Gorky

Learning is an extraordinarily precious thing, and there is no shame in absorbing it from any source.

--Abu'l-Zhi Faraz

Learning is labor, labor full of ideas.

--Ushinsky

Don't go to bed when you can't yet say to yourself that you have learned something today.

--Lichtenberg

It is no better to learn by loafing than to learn by loafing.

--John Bayless

The three conditions for learning are: more observation, more suffering, and more study.

--Gafferau

The trick to learning a lot is not to learn a lot at once.

--Locke

The first sign of an educated mind is a good questioner.

-- Plekhanov

Those who ask good questions are only fools for five minutes; those who are ashamed to ask questions are fools for life.

--Anonymous

The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.

--Fleger

To use learning too much as an ornament is falsehood; to judge entirely according to learned rules is the eccentricity of the scholar.

--Bacon

I have gained nothing else by my endeavors of learning, but a growing sense of my own ignorance.

-- Descartes

Man learns a little every day, and often what he learns is to find that what he learned yesterday was wrong.

--B.V

Repetition is the mother of learning.

--Dietzgen

Learn and then you know what is lacking, teach and then you know what is difficult. If you know that you are not enough, then you will be able to reflect on yourself; if you know that you are in trouble, then you will be able to strengthen yourself.

--Kong Qiu (Spring and Autumn Period thinker, educator) quoted from the Book of Rites. The Records of Learning

When one is young and eager to learn, it is like the sunrise of the sun; when one is strong and eager to learn, it is like the light in the middle of the sun; when one is old and eager to learn, it is like the brightness of a candle.

--Liu Xiang (Western Han Dynasty scribe, writer) quoted from "Saying Yuan"

The one who sees more is more knowledgeable, the one who hears more is wiser, the one who refuses to give advice is stuffed, and the one who specializes in himself is lonely.

--Huan Kuan (桓寬) quoted in "The Discourse on Salt and Iron.

If a person's ambition is not far away and his mind is not in the right place, he will not be able to learn.

--Zhang Zai (philosopher of the Northern Song Dynasty), quoted in "Jingxue Ligu. The Book of Righteousness

Worldly matters are all learned, and human feelings are practiced and realized as essays.

--Cao Xueqin (Qing Dynasty literati) quoted in Dream of Red Mansions, Book 5

It is good to ask good questions. ...... If one does not want to, and only asks casually, even if one can get the right answer, one may not be greatly benefited. Therefore, in the word "learning", the word "ask" is placed under the word "learn".

--Xie Jueya (modern revolutionary) quoted in the book No Confusion

The work of learning is the work of chewing and swallowing slowly. It is like eating a meal; it must be chewed well so that it can be digested and will be beneficial to the human body.

--Tao Ch'iu Quoted from "Ideal. Sentiments. Spiritual Life"

Sharpening one's time, concentrating on one's work, and studying hard is a good way to do scholarly work.

--Cai Shangsi (Modern Historian) quoted in Youth Digest, No. 11, 1983

Study should be based on grasping the basics: i.e., not being over-ambitious and ignoring the basics. The Himalayas are world-famous mountains because they are built on top of the Himalayas,

Panji a peak above the vast plateau; if the Himalayas are built on the plains of the river and the sea, the eight-thousand-meter peaks are difficult to exist, as if the water of the source of the water is easy to be depleted.

--Xu Teli (modern educator and revolutionary) quoted from Xu Teli's Collected Works on Education

Learning a foreign language is not difficult, learning a foreign language is like making a friend, the more friends you make the more you get acquainted with each other, and when you meet every day, your friends will be close to each other.

--Gao Shiqi Quoted from the December 31, 1980 issue of the PLA Daily

Study and research, pay attention to the two not even Liang, one is "malnutrition", there is no certain foundation of literature and history, there is no scientific and theoretical preparation, there is no collection of first-hand information. Preparation, there is no first-hand information collection, get out of the thing, either yellow muscle, or deformed development; two is "indigestion", for book knowledge, whether ancient or modern or an authoritative doctrine, in-depth study, chewing, independent thinking, avoid swallowing in one gulp, people cloud, follow the current, rough, shallow. The first thing I'd like to do is to get a good understanding of the subject matter of the book.

--Ma Yinchu (modern scholar and educator) quoted in Beijing Evening News, June 22, 1981

To be progressive! The path I have traveled is a path of gradual progress.

--Hua Luogeng (Modern Mathematician) quoted in Beijing Evening News, June 20, 1980

Those who are learned and accomplished in ancient and modern times and in other countries have always paid great attention to accumulation. Knowledge is accumulated by machine, and experience is also accumulated. We shouldn't be like a "cloud of smoke" in anything.

--Deng Tuo (modern journalist and scholar), quoted in "Remembering Deng Tuo," Feb. 27, 1979

We have to pull ourselves together and study hard. Under hard work, three words, one is called under, one is called bitter, and one is called work, we must pull ourselves together and make hard work.

--Mao Zedong quoted in "Being a Facilitator of the Revolution"

Situations are constantly changing, and one has to study in order to adapt one's mind to the new situation.

--Mao Zedong quoted in "Speech at the National Conference on Propaganda Work of the Chinese **** Producers' Party"

Intensify your study, seize the center, prefer refinement to miscellaneous, and specialization to multiplicity.

--Zhou Enlai (Modern Revolutionary and Politician) quoted in Selected Works of Zhou Enlai, Volume 1

The nail has two strengths: one is the "squeezing" strength, and the other is the "drilling" strength.

The nail has two strengths: one is "squeezing" and the other is "drilling". In our study, we should also advocate this "nail" spirit, good at squeezing and drilling.

--Lei Feng (Contemporary outstanding warrior, martyr) quoted from "Lei Feng's Diary"

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