Author: Horace Mann

Quotes

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

- Horace Mann

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

- Horace Mann

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

- Horace Mann

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

- Horace Mann

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

- Horace Mann

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

- Horace Mann

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

- Horace Mann

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

- Horace Mann

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

- Horace Mann

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