Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

Our ideals are our better selves... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

The less routine the more life... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

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... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

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... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine... view

By: Amos Bronson Alcott