Source: Horace Mann, Lectures on Education (1855), Lecture 1.
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Every addiction to true knowledge is an addiction to human power.
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Learning gives creativity. Creativity leads to thinking. Thinking provides knowledge. Knowledge makes you great.
Always, through my whole life, I’ve had a thirst for knowledge.
Knowledge is knowing what to say. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.
If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come.
The more you know, the more you realize how much you don’t know — the less you know, the more you think you know.
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