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Type: Educator Quotes Category: American Educator Quotes Date of Birth: November 29, 1799 Date of Death: March 4, 1888 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Amos Bronson Alcott Related Authors: Leon Kass Michael Pollan Leland Stanford Temple Grandin Booker T. Washington Horace Mann John W. Gardner Stephen Cohen |
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Amos Bronson Alcott A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. Amos Bronson Alcott Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. Amos Bronson Alcott First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others. Amos Bronson Alcott Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. Amos Bronson Alcott Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators. Amos Bronson Alcott One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. Amos Bronson Alcott Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams. Amos Bronson Alcott Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. Amos Bronson Alcott Our ideals are our better selves. 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 Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. Amos Bronson Alcott Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. Amos Bronson Alcott That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. Amos Bronson Alcott The less routine the more life. Amos Bronson Alcott The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. Amos Bronson Alcott 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 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 To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. Amos Bronson Alcott To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. Amos Bronson Alcott We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. Amos Bronson Alcott Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well. 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 Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides. Amos Bronson Alcott Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. Amos Bronson Alcott |
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