Amos Bronson Alcott Famous Quotes
STAY is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
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.
"Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness."
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Amos Bronson Alcott Quotations
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
V Naipaul
"Disclaimer If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it."
T Lehrer
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Anthony Robbins
"What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it."
Margot Asquith
Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
What is the sound of one hand clapping
Confucius
"Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)"
Gaius Julius Caesar
"Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music."
Friedrich von Schelling
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Max Eastman
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
Alexander Tyler