Quote

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

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
Creates
Already
Education
Given
Giving
People
Necessity

More quotes by Horace Mann

Image
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
Horace Mann
Image
In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.
Horace Mann
Image
As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.
Horace Mann
Image
In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
Horace Mann
Image
An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.
Horace Mann
Image
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
Horace Mann
Image
If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.
Horace Mann
Image
To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.
Horace Mann
Image
The pulpit only teaches to be honest the market-place trains to overreaching and fraud and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.
Horace Mann
Image
Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
Horace Mann
Image
New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.
Horace Mann
Image
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.
Horace Mann
Image
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
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
Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.
Horace Mann
Image
Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.
Horace Mann
Image
To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
Horace Mann
Image
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.
Horace Mann
Image
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
Horace Mann
Image
Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.
Horace Mann