If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.


Concerning Practice (ed. 1951)

Mao Zedong Quotes

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution,...

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution,...

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution,...

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution,...