Amos Bronson Alcott
Amos Bronson Alcott
Amos Bronson Alcottwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth29 November 1799
CountryUnited States of America
Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.
A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
A good style fits like a good costume.
Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.
One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.