"There is nothing so costly as ignorance." — Horace Mann
"There is nothing so costly as ignorance."
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Horace Mann
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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 Costly Quotes
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Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of…
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Morality is a private and costly luxury.
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Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one…
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But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've…
— John Boehner
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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear.…
— Abdallah II
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If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants,…
— Unknown Author
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When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is…
— John Howard Griffin
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I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine…
— Mark Twain
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my…
— William Shakespeare
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God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver..
— Timothy Keller
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Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction.
— Richard Neustadt
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