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Quotes from Table-Talk — Amos Bronson Alcott

1799–1888 United States

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11 quotes

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Table-Talk (1877)

Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

Table-Talk (1877)

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.

Table-Talk (1877)

Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.

Table-Talk (1877)

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Table-Talk (1877)

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

Table-Talk (1877)

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

Table-Talk (1877)

Without a mythology faith is impersonal and heartless.

Table-Talk (1877)

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Table-Talk (1877)

The less of routine, the more of life.

Table-Talk (1877)

Our ideals are our better selves.

Table-Talk (1877)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Amos Bronson Alcott (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.