Horace Mann
American educational reformer, 1796-1859
22 quotes.
Quotes by Horace Mann
- A human being is not, in any proper sense, a human being till he is educated.
- A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on cold iron.
- Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
- Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.
- Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
- Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
- Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
- God can speak whatever he will into existence, but man must work into existence whatever good he desires.
- Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.
- If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
- In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle.
- 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 do of colors.
- It has long seemed to me that it would be more honorable to our ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
- It is more difficult, and calls for higher energies of the soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
- It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.
- Just in proportion as a man becomes good, divine, Christlike, he passes out of the region of theorizing, of system-building, and hireling service, into the region of beneficent activities. It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.
- 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!
- 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.
- To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
- 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.
- We should be ashamed to die until we've made some major contribution to humankind.
- You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.