Horace Mann Quotes About Truth

Quotes about: Truth

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

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Greatness

• Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Errors, Development

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.240

• Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Science, Air

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.38

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

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Greatness, Men

• There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Errors, Triumph

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.27

• Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Water, Mind

• You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Needs, Knows

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.211

• Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Errors, Roots

• New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.

  Horace Mann

  Stars, Truth, Shining

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.59

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