Quote

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

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
Christianity
Handmaid
Philosophy
Phrenology
Public
Handmaids
Upon
Benefactor
True
Benefactors
Look
Guide
Looks
Whoever
Guides

More quotes by Horace Mann

Image
If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.
Horace Mann
Image
Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.
Horace Mann
Image
You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it but let all you tell be truth.
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
Keep one thing in view forever- the truth and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.
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
Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.
Horace Mann
Image
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
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
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
Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.
Horace Mann
Image
In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.
Horace Mann
Image
Love must be the same in all worlds.
Horace Mann
Image
The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart.
Horace Mann
Image
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
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
You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing it encourages much.
Horace Mann
Image
It is well to think well it is divine to act well.
Horace Mann
Image
There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.
Horace Mann
Image
The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.
Horace Mann