Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes
"Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Experience, Books, Observation)
"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
"Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Dreams, Senses)
"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Friends, World)
"Our ideals are our better selves."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Ideals)
"First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: First, Man, Will)
"Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Strength, Weakness)
"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Delight, Expectation, Profit)
"The less routine the more life."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Life, Routine)
"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Life, Thought, Man, Sense, Thinking)
"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Ignorance)
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Age, Heart, Old)
"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Heaven)
"Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Home, Mother)
"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Company, May, Old, Years)
"Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Key, Mind)
"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Mankind)
"Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Family, Society, Children, Paradise)
"A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Students)
"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Business, Government, Corruption)
"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Eyes, Influence, Self, Spirit, Will)
"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Conversation, Debate)