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Knowledge Quotes by Horace Mann
- But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of…
- A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books,…
- Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
- Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.
- Knowledge is a mimic creation.
- As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake…
- When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant…
- Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.
- If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting,…
- Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
- It is well when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered amongst the multitudes.…
- Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
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