Source: Horace Mann, Lectures on Education (1855), Lecture 1.
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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Every addiction to true knowledge is an addiction to human power.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
You can give a person knowledge, but you can’t make them think. Some people want to remain fools, only because the truth requires change.
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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