Quotes from Forty Thousand Quotations — Amos Bronson Alcott
1799–1888 United States
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
Debate is masculine; conversation is feminine.
Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another’s.
Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
Where there is a mother in the house, matters speed well.
Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Amos Bronson Alcott (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.