Horace Mann Quotes about Truth

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

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

Horace Mann

Truth, Greatness

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

Horace Mann

Truth, Water, Mind

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

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

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

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