"On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance.……" — Horace Mann
"On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there."
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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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A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must…
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Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense…
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion…
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The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing…
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No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is…
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No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a…
— Ron Chernow
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Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
— Jeffrey Archer
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All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed…
— William J. Clinton
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We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it…
— Edward Kennedy
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The INS, by their actions, is telling would-be illegal aliens that if you don't get caught entering the U.S., we'll…
— Lamar S. Smith
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There is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is aware of the endlessness…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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