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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

Stichwörter: intelligence knowledge opinion growth conflict

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

Horace Mann

Stichwörter: humanity death victory accomplishment achievement

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.

Horace Mann

Stichwörter: past time live-in-the-moment

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Horace Mann

Stichwörter: inspirational compassion humanity greed charity helping-others volunteerism

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

Stichwörter: action

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

Stichwörter: education

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

Horace Mann

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

Horace Mann

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

Horace Mann

Stichwörter: knowledge ignorance