"Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies……" — Horace Mann
"Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge."
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108 Quotes by Horace Mann
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human…
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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
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It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate…
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The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss…
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
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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…
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Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.
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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
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Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
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Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something…
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There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds…
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More Breeds Quotes
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
— Henry Adams
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In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
— William Bernbach
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
— William Blake
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
— William Blake
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
— Aesop
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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter,…
— Bono
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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law;…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
— Dale Carnegie
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so…
— George Chapman
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
— Felicity Kendal
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Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
— Abdul Kalam
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