If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of… — Horace Mann Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered,… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
It is well when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known. — Horace Mann Copy Share
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also… — Horace Mann Copy Share
The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is… — Horace Mann Copy Share
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… — Horace Mann Copy Share
On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there. — Horace Mann Copy Share
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always… — Horace Mann Copy Share
We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it… — Horace Mann Copy Share
In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education… — Horace Mann Copy Share
Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor… — Horace Mann Copy Share
Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence. — Horace Mann Copy Share
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute… — Horace Mann Copy Share
Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths… — Horace Mann Copy Share
Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the… — Horace Mann Copy Share
