Horace Mann - Truth Quotes

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

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

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It is well when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered amongst the multitudes. Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions of truths may be propagated amongst the people.... The whole land must be watered with the streams of knowledge.

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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.

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

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When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.

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No matter how seemingly unconnected with human affairs or remote from human interests a newly-discovered truth may appear to be, time and genius will some day make it minister to human welfare. When Dr. Franklin was once sceptically asked what was the use of some recondite and far-off truth which had just been brought to light, "What," said he, "is the use of babies?"

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As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

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No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.

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Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their sovereignty. He cannot bow to their majesty until he sees their power. All the blind then, and all the ignorant--that is, all the children--must be educated up to the point of perceiving and admitting the truth, and acting according to its mandates.

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On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it.

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He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

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It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

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

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