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

—  Horace Mann

Journal entry (29 October 1838)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both." by Horace Mann?
Horace Mann photo
Horace Mann 67
American politician 1796–1859

Related quotes

Robert Browning photo
Thomas Carlyle photo
William Cowper photo
Thomas the Apostle photo
Jerzy Vetulani photo

“I will remember him as a man who is honestly seeking the truth. And a bit more: there was also the courage to find and take risks to defend this truth.”

Jerzy Vetulani (1936–2017) Polish scientist

Grzegorz Strzelczyk, a Catholic priest who co-authored a book that was a conversation record between him and Vetulani, in an interview with Tygodnik Sanocki http://tygodniksanocki.pl/2017/10/08/czy-w-mozgu-mieszka-bog/ (in Polish).

Confucius photo

“It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

As quoted in The Importance of Living (1937) by Lin Yutang, p. v
Attributed

Henry Ward Beecher photo
Edward Young photo

“Great let me call him, for he conquered me.”

Edward Young (1683–1765) English poet

The Revenge (1721), Act I, sc. i.

Ralph Waldo Emerson photo
Dorothy L. Sayers photo

Related topics