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Amos Bronson Alcott

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Amos Bronson Alcott is proof that you do not need celebrity to say something worth remembering. With equal ease, Amos Bronson Alcott moved between Teacher and Age, finding connections others missed. 18 of Amos Bronson Alcott's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Teacher, Age, Success, Strength, and Society. One quote that captures their voice: "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-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Teacher

All Quotes by 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

Teacher

“Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Strength

“Our ideals are our better selves.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Inspirational

“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Business

“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

“We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Failure

“Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Dreams

“While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Age

“A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Teacher

“Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Success

“Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Home

“The less routine the more life.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Life

“Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Friendship

“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Age

“Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Experience