Horace Mann Quotes (21 quotations)
1. 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. - Horace Mann
2. A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. - Horace Mann
3. Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. - Horace Mann
4. Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us. - Horace Mann
5. 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. - Horace Mann
6. Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. - Horace Mann
7. Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. - Horace Mann
8. Evil and good are God's right hand and left. - Horace Mann
9. Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. - Horace Mann
10. If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. - Horace Mann
11. If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. - Horace Mann
12. It is well to think well; it is divine to act well. - Horace Mann
13. Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. - Horace Mann
14. Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. - Horace Mann
15. Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. - Horace Mann
16. 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. - Horace Mann
17. One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good. - Horace Mann
18. 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. - Horace Mann
19. Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. - Horace Mann
20. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. - Horace Mann
21. 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. - Horace Mann
2. A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. - Horace Mann
3. Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. - Horace Mann
4. Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us. - Horace Mann
5. 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. - Horace Mann
6. Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. - Horace Mann
7. Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. - Horace Mann
8. Evil and good are God's right hand and left. - Horace Mann
9. Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. - Horace Mann
10. If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. - Horace Mann
11. If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. - Horace Mann
12. It is well to think well; it is divine to act well. - Horace Mann
13. Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. - Horace Mann
14. Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. - Horace Mann
15. Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. - Horace Mann
16. 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. - Horace Mann
17. One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good. - Horace Mann
18. 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. - Horace Mann
19. Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. - Horace Mann
20. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. - Horace Mann
21. 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. - Horace Mann
