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Quotes from Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann — Horace Mann

1796–1859 United States

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

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

No matter how seemingly unconnected with human affairs or remote from human interests a newly-discovered truth may appear to be, time and genius will some day make it minister to human welfare.

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

Be sure of the fact, before you lose time in searching for a cause.

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

Physics is the Science of Matter; Metaphysics the Science of Mind — the Science of Being, apart from accidents and properties — Ontology.

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

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

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

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.

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

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.

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. As Satan said, "Evil, be thou my good," so they say, "Darkness, be thou my light."

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

Just in proportion as a man becomes good, divine, Christ-like, he passes out of the region of theorizing, of system-building, and hireling service, into the region of beneficent activities. It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

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