110+ Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes On Education, Friendship And And Marriage

Amos Bronson Alcott was an American educator, writer and philosopher. He was a leader in the Transcendentalist movement, and was a mentor to his daughter Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women. He was an advocate for educational reform and believed in the potential of every individual to reach their highest potential. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott on life, love, education.

Top 10 Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes

1. A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
2. Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
3. The less routine the more life.
4. To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
5. Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
6. I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
7. A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
8. Our ideals are our better selves.
9. Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
10. 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 Image Quotes

The less routine the more life. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott Short Quotes

• Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
• To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
• Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
• Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
• One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
• Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
• Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
• The surest sign of age is loneliness.
• Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
• Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes About Life

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

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance. — Amos Bronson Alcott

One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes About Love

Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps. — Amos Bronson Alcott

The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only. — Amos Bronson Alcott

None can teach admirably if not loving his task. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes About Education

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

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it. — Amos Bronson Alcott

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes About Inspiring

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. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Inspiration must find answering inspiration. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Many can argue - not many converse. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes About Personal

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself. — Amos Bronson Alcott

My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves. — Amos Bronson Alcott

The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons. — Amos Bronson Alcott

The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes About Success

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes About Eyes

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

The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott Famous Quotes And Sayings

The less routine the more life. — 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

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

There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith. — Amos Bronson Alcott

The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne? — Amos Bronson Alcott

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also. — Amos Bronson Alcott

One's outlook is a part of his virtue. — Amos Bronson Alcott

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

Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman. — Amos Bronson Alcott

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament. — Amos Bronson Alcott

A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs. — Amos Bronson Alcott

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

The richest minds need not large libraries. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Every sin provokes its punishment. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force. — Amos Bronson Alcott

A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women. — Amos Bronson Alcott

If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible. — Amos Bronson Alcott

A good style fits like a good costume. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us. — Amos Bronson Alcott

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression — Amos Bronson Alcott

Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters? — Amos Bronson Alcott

Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless. — Amos Bronson Alcott

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best. — Amos Bronson Alcott

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books. — Amos Bronson Alcott

The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Opposition strengthens the manly will. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides. — Amos Bronson Alcott

The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons whose names thereafter became illustrious. The thumbed volumes, now so precious to thousands, were compiled from personal experiences and owe their interest to touches of inspiration of which the writer was less author than amanuensis, himself the voiced word of life for all times. — Amos Bronson Alcott

The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor. — Amos Bronson Alcott

A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few. — Amos Bronson Alcott

A chaste generation would restore Paradise. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness. — Amos Bronson Alcott

A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical — Amos Bronson Alcott

A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse — Amos Bronson Alcott

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Life Lessons by Amos Bronson Alcott

1. Amos Bronson Alcott taught that education should be used to cultivate a person's moral and spiritual growth, rather than simply imparting knowledge. He believed that education should be tailored to the individual, and that it should be used to foster creativity and independent thinking.
2. Alcott also taught that education should be used to promote a sense of community and social responsibility. He believed that education should be used to help people understand their place in the world and to develop a sense of empathy for others.
3. Finally, Alcott emphasized the importance of self-reflection and self-improvement. He believed that education should be used to help people become more aware of their own strengths and weaknesses, and to strive to become the best versions of themselves.