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
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
Topics: Success & Failure, Success
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
—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
Topics: Education, Learning, Teaching
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
Topics: Government
The less routine the more life.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
Topics: Living, Life
If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken, we moderns are building houses for them.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
Topics: Ideas
When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and to young people, he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from what is sweetest and purest in human existence.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
Our ideals are our better selves.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
Topics: Idealism, Ideals
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
Topics: Reading, Books
To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of ignorance.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
Topics: Ignorance
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, Aging, Age
Thought means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
Topics: Thoughts, Thought, Thinking
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
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