Human power Quote by Horace Mann Download Open image “Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.” — Horace Mann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human power Knowledge Nature of man Power True knowledge
Knowledge is potential power. It transforms itself into actual power the moment you decisively act on it. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings,… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
“God figured out when he separated us from the rest of the creatures that if we have the power to reason and justify and… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“New religionists, such as Williams, Dawkins, and Wilson, regard people and all other organisms as the helpless puppets, tools, or vehicles, of hidden purposive… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
“She was not only unable to make the least allowance for a divergence from this way, but utterly unable to conceive that another existed… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image