223 Quotes by Horace Mann

So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed that no man has yet lived who could so much as name all the different classes and subdivisions of truths, and far less anyone who was acquainted with all the truths belonging to any one class. What wonderful extent, what amazing variety, what collective magnificence! And if such be the number of truths pertaining to this tiny ball of earth, how must it be in the incomprehensible immensity!

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.

Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.

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.

We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.