Quote

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
Philosopher
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Bronson Alcott
Failing
Books
Experience
Book
Converts
Fail

More quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott

Image
Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Image
Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Image
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Image
Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Image
Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Image
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Image
Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Image
Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Image
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Image
Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Image
A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Image
Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Image
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
Image
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Image
Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
Amos Bronson Alcott
Image
A work of real merit finds favor at last.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Image
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Image
There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Image
Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Image
An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
Amos Bronson Alcott