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Horace Mann on Knowledge

1796–1859 United States

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Lectures on Education (1855)

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up all the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

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