Horace Mann Quotes

If people do not know where they have been and what they have been they don't know what they are. They don't know where they going to have to go or where they still have to be.

When I get the point, I often don't know what to do with it.

I needed to see, needed to know, needed a whole lot more.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

Nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be It's easy

The universe... is a machine for the making of gods.

We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know.

Sometimes you can't know until you know.

One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.

I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts.

The more you know, the better you can imagine.

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth

Come, live with me and you'll know me.

To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.

Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer.

What men have seen they know. . . .

If you have to ask, you’ll never know. If you know, you need only ask.

You don't have to know much, just a little bit more than everybody else.

The wise man knows without traveling.

Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.