Beads Quote by Amos Bronson Alcott

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

— Amos Bronson Alcott

One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“Concord is a classic land. The names of Emerson and Thoreau and Channing and Hawthorne are associated with the fields and forests and lakes…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion,…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“Who knows the mind has the key to all things else.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“Success is sweeter and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

— Amos Bronson Alcott