Horace Mann Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

21 Famous Quotes by Horace Mann
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“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.”
Houses Quotes
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind”
Mankind Quotes
“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.”
Mercy Quotes
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind”
Victory Quotes
“To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.”
Philanthropy Quotes
Source: Lectures on Education (lecture VI)
“Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.”
Printing Quotes
Source: The Common School Journal (February, 1943, Printing and Paper Making)
“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.”
Ignorance Quotes
Source: Lectures on Education (lecture VI)
“Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.”
Generosity Quotes
“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.”
Balance Quotes
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
Death / immortality Quotes
“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.”
Education Quotes
“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.”
Education Quotes
“Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.”
Generosity Quotes
“We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.”
Majority Quotes
“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.”
Manners Quotes
“It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.”
Martyr Quotes
“Observation--activity of both eyes and ears.”
Observation Quotes
“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.”
Punctuality Quotes
“He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.”
Temptation Quotes
“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.”
Time Quotes
“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.”
Time Quotes