Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Book, Character, Lovers

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.131

• An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Character, Ideas, Age

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

• Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Children, Book, Character

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

• One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Wise, Book, Reading

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.131

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