Top 15 Horace Mann Quotes

A house without books is like a room without windows.

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

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

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

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

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.

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

No man has the right to bring up children without surrounding them with books.

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

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

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

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.