35 Quotations by Horace Mann
- 1. A habit is like a cable: we weave a thread of it everyday, and at last we cannot break it -- so we m ...
- 2. A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children wi ...
- 3. A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
- 4. A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering ...
- 5. Avoid witicisms at the expense of others.
- 6. Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
- 7. Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
- 8. Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in ...
- 9. Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
- 10. Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions ...
- 11. Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
- 12. False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
- 13. Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds ...
- 14. Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
- 15. I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
- 16. If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
- 17. If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
- 18. Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities o ...
- 19. It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
- 20. It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.
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