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Horace Mann Quotes

Total quotes: 14
“ Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows.”
— Horace Mann, The Duty of Owning Books
Tagged: Book Nerd, Examples of Similes, Books, book, Reading, Best Reading Quotes
“The most ignorant are the most conceited.”
— Horace Mann, Lectures on Education(Classic Reprint)
Tagged: Ego, Arrogance, Pretending To Be Smart
“He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. He is wanting in the highest attributes of humanity.”
— Horace Mann, A Few Thoughts for a Young Man(Classic Reprint)
Tagged: Temptation, Sin
“ You were made to learn. Be sure to learn something every day. If you were to stop eating, would not your bodies pine and famish? If you stop learning, your minds will pine and famish too.”
— Horace Mann, Letter To School Children
Tagged: Learning, Education, Importance of Education
“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, Thoughts Selected From the Writings of Horace Mann(Classic Reprint)
Tagged: Evil, Ethics
“Physics is the Science of Matter; Metaphysics the Science of Mind — the Science of Being, apart from accidents and properties — Ontology.”
— Horace Mann, Thoughts Selected From the Writings of Horace Mann(Classic Reprint)
Tagged: Understanding The World Through Philosophy
“If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.”
— Horace Mann, Thoughts Selected From the Writings of Horace Mann(Classic Reprint)
Tagged: Education
“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.”
— Horace Mann, Journal entry(29 October 1838)
“The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.”
— Horace Mann, Lectures on Education(Classic Reprint)
Tagged: punishment
“The laws of nature are sublime, but there is a moral sublimity before which the highest intelligences must kneel and adore.”
— Horace Mann, A Few Thoughts for a Young Man(Classic Reprint)
Tagged: Nature vs. God, Moral and nature
“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.”
— Horace Mann, Lectures on Education(Classic Reprint)
Tagged: Knowledge, Gaining Wisdom
“The intellectual and moral nature of man is the one thing precious in the sight of God; and therefore, until this nature is cultivated, and enlightened, and purified, neither opulence, nor power, nor learning, nor genius, nor domestic sanctity, nor the holiness of God's altars, can ever be safe. Until the immortal and god-like capacities of every being that comes into the world are deemed more worthy, are watched more tenderly than any other thing, no dynasty of men, or form of government, can stand, or shall stand, upon the face of the earth; and the force or the fraud which would seek to uphold them, shall be but "as fetters of flax to bind the flame.”
— Horace Mann, Thoughts Selected From the Writings of Horace Mann(Classic Reprint)
Tagged: Education
“The laws by which the winds blow, and the tides of the ocean, like a vast clepsydra, measure, with inimitable exactness, the hours of ever-flowing time; the laws by which the planets roll, and the sun vivifies and paints; the laws which preside over the subtle combinations of chemistry, and the amazing velocities of electricity; the laws of germination and production in the vegetable and animal worlds, — all these, radiant with eternal beauty as they are, and exalted above all the objects of sense, still wane and pale before the Moral Glories that apparel the universe in their celestial light. The heart can put on charms which no beauty of known things, nor imagination of the unknown, can aspire to emulate. Virtue shines in native colors, purer and brighter than pearl, or diamond, or prism, can reflect. Arabian gardens in their bloom can exhale no such sweetness as charity diffuses. Beneficence is godlike, and he who does most good to his fellow-man is the Master of Masters, and has learned the Art of Arts. Enrich and embellish the universe as you will, it is only a fit temple for the heart that loves truth with a supreme love. Inanimate vastness excites wonder; knowledge kindles admiration, but love enraptures the soul. Scientific truth is marvellous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light, has found the lost paradise. For him, a new heaven and a new earth have already been created. His home is the sanctuary of God, the Holy of Holies.”
— Horace Mann, A Few Thoughts for a Young Man(Classic Reprint)
“Whether a young man shall reap pleasure or pain from winning the objects of his choice, depends, not only upon his wisdom or folly in selecting those objects, but upon the right or wrong methods by which he pursues them. Hence, a knowledge what to select and how to pursue, is as necessary to the highest happiness as virtue herself. Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.”
— Horace Mann, A Few Thoughts for a Young Man(Classic Reprint)
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