Horace Mann Quotes

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children wi...

Character is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

Lost yesterday somewhere between sunrise and sunset two golden hours each set with sixty diamond...

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

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

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions o...

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

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen m...

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen m...

Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamon...

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

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borro...

Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --th...

Virtue is an angel but she is a blind one and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that l...

To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs ...

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond...

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It woul...

Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others.

We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west it is not magnetized. Lay...

The object of punishment is prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by i...

To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.

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

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the ri...

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammeri...

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering...

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of hap...