Quote

If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.

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
Heart
Worthy
Sacrifice
Cause
Education
Causes
Ever
Upheld
Human
Toil
Humans
Endure

More quotes by 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
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
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
Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
Horace Mann
Image
Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.
Horace Mann
Image
The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
Horace Mann
Image
We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it is proper to speak of eternity as the attribute of God, but of immortality as the attribute of man.
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
Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.
Horace Mann
Image
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
Horace Mann
Image
You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing it encourages much.
Horace Mann
Image
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
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
We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
Horace Mann
Image
The object of punishment is, prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
Horace Mann
Image
If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.
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
The Chinese have an excellent proverb: Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
Horace Mann
Image
Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.
Horace Mann
Image
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
Horace Mann