Quotes by Horace Mann

About Horace Mann:

Horace Mann was an American politician and educational reformer. A Whig devoted to promoting speedy modernization, he served in the Massachusetts State Legislature (1827–37). In 1848, after serving as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education since its creation, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives. Historian Ellwood P. Cubberley asserts:
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Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Horace Mann

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. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in th...

Horace Mann

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

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Horace Mann

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

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Horace Mann

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Horace Mann

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

Horace Mann

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Horace Mann

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

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Horace Mann

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

Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.

Horace Mann

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Horace Mann

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

Horace Mann

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

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Horace Mann

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

Horace Mann

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

Horace Mann

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

Horace Mann

Author Bio

  • NameHorace Mann
  • DescriptionAmerican politician
  • BornMay 4, 1796
  • DiedAugust 2, 1859
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician