Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes

Best Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott (Top 10)

The less routine the more life.
Amos Bronson Alcott
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Our ideals are our better selves.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
Amos Bronson Alcott
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
Amos Bronson Alcott
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
Amos Bronson Alcott
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Amos Bronson Alcott
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
Amos Bronson Alcott
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
Amos Bronson Alcott