All Horace Mann Quotes
- The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more. Already Given
- Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. Angel
- Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . . Education
- Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected. Been
- Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training. Effective
- Deeds survive the doers. Deeds
- Knowledge is a mimic creation. Creation
- As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake… Already Amassed
- When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant… Catch
- Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just. Brave
- If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting,… Burning
- There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with… Celebrate
- Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion. Brain
- Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series… Ascending
- The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is… Accelerating
- A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be… Form
- Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day.… All
- Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in… Bars
- On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there. Entering
- Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate Conceive