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Horace Mann Quotes

1796–1859 United States

Horace Mann (4 May 1796 – 2 August 1859) was an American education reformer and abolitionist.

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Also known as: Mann, Horace

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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

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

Words for Teachers to Live By (2002)

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

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

I have never heard any thing about the resolutions of the disciples, but a great deal about the Acts of the Apostles.

We put things in order; God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west,— it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.

Let us labor for that larger and larger comprehension of truth, that more and more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

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.

To know how much there is that we do not know, is one of the most valuable parts of our attainments; for such knowledge becomes both a lesson of humility and a stimulus to exertion.

Lectures on Education (1855)

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Thoughts (1901)

True glory is a flame lighted at the skies.

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.

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. He is wanting in the highest attributes of humanity.

A Few Thoughts for a Young Man (1850)

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Excellent Quotations for Home and School (1890)

The most ignorant are the most conceited.

Lectures on Education (1855)

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.

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

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.

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

Lectures on Education (1855)

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

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Horace Mann (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.