Amos Bronson Alcott quotes

Amos Bronson Alcott

"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Success Long Sweet Success Is Many
"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Failure Heaven Climb Finding
"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Ignorance Ignorant Malady
"The less routine the more life."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Life More Routine Less
"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Communication Who Mankind Response
"Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Education Experience More Observation
"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Friendship World Us Friends Take
"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Age Matter Feel Old
"A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Teacher True Own Personal
"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Good Profit Book Expectation
"Our ideals are our better selves."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Inspirational Better Our Ideals
"Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Dreams Us Sense Our
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Heart Age Old Age Old
"Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Home Go Mother Well Matters
"First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Man You Yourself Men
"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Business Government Corruption Own
"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Debate Conversation Masculine
"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
Family Society Children Paradise
"Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Mind Who Things Key
"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Wise Must Well Wisely
"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
Life Man Thinking Real
"Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Strength Me Weakness Strengthen
"The less routine the more life."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Life Routine Life Changing
"The less routine the more life."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Life Routine Life Changing
"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Fall Government Mind Your Own Business
"Our ideals are our better selves."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Inspirational Self Idealism
"Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse"
Amos Bronson Alcott
Arguing Converses
"Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Humor Deep Thought Lessons
"A chaste generation would restore Paradise."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Generations Paradise Chaste
"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Friendship Friends World
"Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience"
Amos Bronson Alcott
Ignorance Stupidity Innocence
"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Success Failure Heaven
"Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Women Implied Ifs
"Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Empty Vessels Agitation Answers
"Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Motivational Real Charity
"Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Footprint Prudence
"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Inspirational Humorous Ignorance
"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
Life Real Mean
"A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Inspirational Education Teacher
"Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Nature Stars Ocean
"Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Mom Mother Home
"I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Future Past Forecasts
"Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Unity Debate Conversation
"No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Suicide Men Decision
"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Funny Book Reading
"Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Lines Refuse Written
"Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Anger Animal Blood
"As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Education Mind Privilege
"A work of real merit finds favor at last."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Appreciation Real Work

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