Quote

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

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
Spirit
Degrades
Wells
Derogatory
Elevates
Well
Degrade
Nothing
Employment
Work
Carried
Ministers
Race

More quotes by Horace Mann

Image
The object of punishment is, prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
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
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
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
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Horace Mann
Image
Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.
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
The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
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
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
There is nothing so costly as ignorance.
Horace Mann
Image
Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.
Horace Mann
Image
NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors.
Horace Mann
Image
Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!
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
We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.
Horace Mann
Image
Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
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
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
Image
Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
Horace Mann