Ignorance Quotes by Horace Mann

8 Ignorance quotes by Horace Mann

Horace Mann’s eight brief statements on ignorance give a quick sense of his stance on education and knowledge gaps. Though limited in number, they still convey his conviction that awareness is key to progress.

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On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

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If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or…

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But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much…

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Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic…

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Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on…

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There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

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Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

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Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence…

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So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always…

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We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it…

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In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education…

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Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

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Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor…

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Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

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After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute…

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Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths…

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Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the…

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