Horace Mann Quotes

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.

To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith

Seek the truth. Tell the truth. Live in truth.

Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.

Are we willing to do for the truth what others are willing to do for a lie?

Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

It is very difficult to tell the truth.

Dedicate one's life to truth.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.

And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the only thing.

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.

You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.

Honour the difficult.

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.