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Horace Mann

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Details about Horace Mann's life are scarce, but their observations have traveled far and wide. With equal ease, Horace Mann moved between Education and Truth, finding connections others missed. Browse 20 quotes by Horace Mann that cover ground from Education, Truth, Fear, Teacher, and Power. One quote that captures their voice: "Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both."

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

— Horace Mann

Education

All Quotes by Horace Mann

“When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.”

— Horace Mann

Fear

“The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”

— Horace Mann

Teacher

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

— Horace Mann

Truth

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

— Horace Mann

Knowledge

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

— Horace Mann

Education

“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.”

— Horace Mann

Money

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”

— Horace Mann

Education

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

— Horace Mann

Education

“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.”

— Horace Mann

Death

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

— Horace Mann

Alone

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

— Horace Mann

Fear

“Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.”

— Horace Mann

Truth

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

— Horace Mann

Teacher

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

— Horace Mann

Truth