Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment. He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end, advocated a vegan diet before the term was coined. He was also an abolitionist and an advocate for women’s rights.
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A work of real merit finds favor at last.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
Topics: Appreciation, Work
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
Topics: Books, Reading
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
Topics: Success & Failure, Success
When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and to young people, he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from what is sweetest and purest in human existence.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
Topics: Age
To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of ignorance.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
Topics: Ignorance
If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken, we moderns are building houses for them.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
Topics: Ideas
Our ideals are our better selves.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
Topics: Ideals, Idealism
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
Topics: Time, Age, Aging
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
Topics: Government
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