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Quotes from Lectures on Education — Horace Mann

1796–1859 United States

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

Lectures on Education (1855)

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

Lectures on Education (1855)

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)

The most ignorant are the most conceited.

Lectures on Education (1855)

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

Lectures on Education (1855)

Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Lectures on Education (1855)

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