Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
Philosopher
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Bronson Alcott
Travel
Fool
Along
Itinerary
Eyes
Errand
Eye
Errands
Carries
Traveling
Carrie
More quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott
One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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
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
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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
Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
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
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
One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
Amos Bronson Alcott
A work of real merit finds favor at last.
Amos Bronson Alcott