Horace Mann Truth Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.