--- title: "13 Ifs Quotes By Horace Mann" description: "13 Ifs quotes by Horace Mann. Plus more from Horace Mann and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/033/horace-mann-2022_believe_if-an-idiot-were-to-tell-you-the-same-st_651119.png" --- > [If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/if-an-idiot-were-to-tell-you-the-same-story-every-day-for-a-year-you/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/033/horace-mann-2022_believe_if-an-idiot-were-to-tell-you-the-same-st_651119.png) > [If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/if-you-wish-to-write-well-study-the-life-about-you-life-in-the-public/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dad/horace-mann-2022_ifs_if-you-wish-to-write-well-study-the-life_3012834.png) > [Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/reproof-is-a-medicine-like-mercury-or-opium-if-it-be-improperly/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17c/horace-mann-2022_criticism_reproof-is-a-medicine-like-mercury-or-op_2896438.png) > [If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/if-you-can-express-yourself-so-as-to-be-perfectly-understood-in-ten/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a4/horace-mann-2022_dozen_if-you-can-express-yourself-so-as-to-be_2170212.png) > [If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/if-temperance-prevails-then-education-can-prevail-if-temperance-fails/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55d/horace-mann-2022_education_if-temperance-prevails-then-education-ca_2448897.png) > [We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/we-go-by-the-major-vote-and-if-the-majority-are-insane-the-sane-must/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6d/horace-mann-2022_hospitals_we-go-by-the-major-vote-and-if-the-major_1333523.png) > [If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/if-ever-there-was-a-cause-if-ever-there-can-be-a-cause-worthy-to-be-2/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07d/horace-mann-2022_cause_if-ever-there-was-a-cause-if-ever-there_1375264.png) > [If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/if-there-is-anything-for-which-i-would-go-back-to-childhood-and-live/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/063/horace-mann-2022_adventure_if-there-is-anything-for-which-i-would-g_862714.png) > [Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/keep-one-thing-in-view-forever-the-truth-and-if-you-do-this-though-it/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ea/horace-mann-2022_forever_keep-one-thing-in-view-forever-the-truth_501111.png) > [Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/forts-arsenals-garrisons-armies-navies-are-means-of-security-and/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dda/horace-mann-2022_army_forts-arsenals-garrisons-armies-navies-a_952781.png) > [If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/if-ever-there-was-a-cause-if-ever-there-can-be-a-cause-worthy-to-be/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfc/horace-mann-2022_adequate_if-ever-there-was-a-cause-if-ever-there_274620.png) > [So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/so-in-the-infinitely-nobler-battle-in-which-you-are-engaged-against/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2aa/horace-mann-2022_abuse_so-in-the-infinitely-nobler-battle-in-wh_107080.jpg) > [So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/so-multifarious-are-the-different-classes-of-truths-and-so/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d48/horace-mann-2022_balls_so-multifarious-are-the-different-classe_2993321.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Horace Mann > [When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/when-will-society-like-a-mother-take-care-of-all-her-children/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/the-earth-endured-christ-s-ministry-only-three-years-not-three-weeks/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/if-evil-is-inevitable-how-are-the-wicked-accountable-nay-why-do-we/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/the-soul-of-the-truly-benevolent-man-does-not-seem-to-reside-much-in/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/the-pulpit-only-teaches-to-be-honest-the-market-place-trains-to/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/on-entering-this-world-our-starting-point-is-ignorance-none-however/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/so-in-the-infinitely-nobler-battle-in-which-you-are-engaged-against/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/we-conceive-of-immortality-as-having-a-beginning-but-no-end-but-we/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/in-our-country-and-in-our-times-no-man-is-worthy-the-honored-name-of/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/genius-may-conceive-but-patient-labor-must-consummate/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/even-the-choicest-literature-should-be-taken-as-the-condiment-and-not/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/of-all-rights-which-command-attention-at-the-present-time-among-us/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/after-a-child-has-arrived-at-the-legal-age-for-attending-school/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/let-the-common-school-be-expanded-to-its-capabilities-let-it-be/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/resistance-to-improvement-contradicts-the-noblest-instincts-of-the/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/horace-mann/#itemlist", "name": "13 Ifs Quotes By Horace Mann", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Horace Mann" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/if-an-idiot-were-to-tell-you-the-same-story-every-day-for-a-year-you/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/033/horace-mann-2022_believe_if-an-idiot-were-to-tell-you-the-same-st_651119.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/033/horace-mann-2022_believe_if-an-idiot-were-to-tell-you-the-same-st_651119.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/033/horace-mann-2022_believe_if-an-idiot-were-to-tell-you-the-same-st_651119.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.” — Horace Mann", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Horace Mann" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/if-you-wish-to-write-well-study-the-life-about-you-life-in-the-public/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dad/horace-mann-2022_ifs_if-you-wish-to-write-well-study-the-life_3012834.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dad/horace-mann-2022_ifs_if-you-wish-to-write-well-study-the-life_3012834.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dad/horace-mann-2022_ifs_if-you-wish-to-write-well-study-the-life_3012834.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.” — Horace Mann", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; 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It has intrinsic and indestructible merits. It holds the welfare of mankind in its embrace, as the protecting arms of a mother hold her infant to her bosom. 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