Famous Quotes

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

Horace Mann on Power

More quotes about Power

• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

  Abraham Lincoln on Power

• "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

  Margaret Thatcher on Power

• "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

  Bruce Lee on Power

• "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Power

• "Character is power."

  Booker T. Washington on Power

More quotes by Horace Mann

• "Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."

• "Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."

• "Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear."

• "A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."

• "Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."