Amos Bronson Alcott was a famous Educator from USA, who lived between November 29, 1799 and March 4, 1888. He/she became 88 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac sagittarius, who is known for Philosophical, Motion, Experimentation, Optimism.
Our collection contains 23 quotes who is written / told by Amos, under the main topic Age.
23 Famous quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age"
"Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness"
"The less routine the more life"
"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"
"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine"
"Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides"
"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly"
"Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators"
"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"
"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well"
"First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others"
"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be"
"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant"
"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes"
"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit"
"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats"
"Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams"
"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response"
"Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well"
"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man"
"Our ideals are our better selves"
"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay"
"A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences"
