Quote

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

Horace Mann

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
American Politician
Lawyer
Politician
University Teacher
Franklin
Massachusetts
Expenses
Tongue
Avoid
Others
Expense

More quotes by Horace Mann

Image
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace Mann
Image
There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.
Horace Mann
Image
We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
Horace Mann
Image
When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.
Horace Mann
Image
Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.
Horace Mann
Image
I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.
Horace Mann
Image
They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.
Horace Mann
Image
To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
Horace Mann
Image
Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.
Horace Mann
Image
Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.
Horace Mann
Image
As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.
Horace Mann
Image
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.
Horace Mann
Image
Of all rights which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.
Horace Mann
Image
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
Horace Mann
Image
It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
Horace Mann
Image
Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.
Horace Mann
Image
In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.
Horace Mann
Image
Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles on the inside of it are science and no miracles.
Horace Mann
Image
Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior.
Horace Mann
Image
The Chinese have an excellent proverb: Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
Horace Mann