26 Quotations by Amos Bronson Alcott
- 1. A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption a ...
- 2. A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
- 3. Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
- 4. Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
- 5. Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of ex ...
- 6. Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
- 7. One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
- 8. Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
- 9. Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
- 10. Our ideals are our better selves.
- 11. Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise ...
- 12. Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
- 13. Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
- 14. Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
- 15. That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
- 16. That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
- 17. The less routine the more life.
- 18. The surest sign of age is loneliness.
- 19. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. H ...
- 20. Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking ...
Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes by Power Quotations
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