"Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate……" — Horace Mann

"Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just."

— Horace Mann

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108 Quotes by Horace Mann

Horace Mann has 108 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human…
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate…
The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss…
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of…
Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something…
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 Brave Quotes

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate… — Aristotle
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,… — Aristotle
I'm not funny. What I am is brave. — Lucille Ball
You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave. — Clive Barker
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. — Georges Bernanos
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. — Aesop
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks… — Julie Burchill
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. — Alan Alda
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected. — Julius Caesar

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