Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

22 Famous Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott
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“Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.”
Debate Quotes
“To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.”
Ignorance Quotes
“Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.”
Struggle Quotes
“Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.”
Truth Quotes
Source: Concord Days--June--Goethe
“That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.”
Books Quotes
Source: Table Talk (bk. I, Learning-Books)
“A man of one book. [Lat., Homo unius libri.]”
Books Quotes
Source: Table Talk (bk. I, Learning-Books)
“The richest minds need not large libraries.”
Libraries Quotes
Source: Table Talk (bk. I, Learning-Books)
“Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.”
Women Quotes
Source: Concord Days--August--Woman
“Oh, the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad.”
Women Quotes
Source: Concord Days--August--Woman
“Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd, And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude; But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness, Are as nothing to their goodness when they're good.”
Women Quotes
Source: Concord Days--August--Woman
“One's outlook is a part of his virtue.”
Virtue Quotes
Source: Concord Days--April Outlook
“The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.”
Traveling Quotes
Source: Table-Talk--Traveling
“Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.”
Traveling Quotes
Source: Table-Talk--Traveling
“Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness.”
Sympathy Quotes
Source: Table-Talk--Sympathy
“One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.”
Quotes Quotes
“Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.”
Strength Quotes
“The less routine the more life.”
Inspirational Quotes
“That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.”
Books Quotes
“One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.”
Books and reading Quotes
“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.”
Literature Quotes
“The surest sign of age is loneliness.”
Men and women Quotes
“Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.”
Miscellaneous Quotes