223 Quotes by Horace Mann

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

If any man seeks greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

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.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to us; they implore us to think more of the character of our people than of its vast numbers; to look upon our vast natural resources, not as tempters to ostentation and pride, but as means to be converted, by the refining alchemy of education, into mental and spiritual treasures-and thus give to the world the example of a nation whose wisdom increases with its prosperity, and whose virtues are equal to its power.