Horace Mann Quotes


Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. Horace Mann Ashamed 281
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. Horace Mann Education 203
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. Horace Mann education 185
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. Horace Mann Edge 132
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. Horace Mann Teacher 117
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. Horace Mann Education 109
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts. Horace Mann Actions 106
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. Horace Mann Truth 102
Avoid witicisms at the expense of others. Horace Mann Humor 100
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. Horace Mann Accountable 97
You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth. Horace Mann Truth 96
We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. Horace Mann Democracy 88
In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color. Horace Mann Principles 87
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. Horace Mann Prison 86
A house without books is like a room without windows. Horace Mann Books 84
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse. Horace Mann False 84
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. Horace Mann Ignorance 80
The greatest service we can perform for others is to help them to help themselves. Horace Mann Self 80
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. Horace Mann Martyr 80
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms. Horace Mann Morals 79
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. Horace Mann Death 74
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. Horace Mann Power 73
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well. Horace Mann Action 72
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. Horace Mann Truth 72
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. Horace Mann Giving 71
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. Horace Mann Truth 71
To pity, distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike. Horace Mann 70
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. Horace Mann Fear 67
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. Horace Mann Education 67
Education...beyond all other devices of human origin is a great equalizer of conditions of men the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich it prevents being poor. Horace Mann Education 67
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments. Horace Mann Truth 66
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. Horace Mann Greatness 65
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever. Horace Mann Time 65
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well. Horace Mann Act 58
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. Horace Mann Attempting 57
Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever. Horace Mann Time 54
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. Horace Mann Break 53
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. Horace Mann Manners 53
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. Horace Mann 52
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them. Horace Mann Adversities 50
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it. Horace Mann Habits 50
The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man. Horace Mann Intelligence 48
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. Horace Mann Habits 46
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. Horace Mann Knowledge 38
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. Horace Mann Habits 37
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. Horace Mann Others 33
Do not think of knocking out another persons brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. Horace Mann Opinion 32
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. Horace Mann Reform 31

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