Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others

#Inspiration

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and...

#Friendship, #Love

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its...

#Government

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.

#Books

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any...

#Life, #Thinking, #Thought

The less routine the more life.

#Life

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

#Books

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

#Ignorance

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

#Amos Bronson Alcott

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

#Amos Bronson Alcott

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

#Amos Bronson Alcott

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest...

#Amos Bronson Alcott