Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Orphic Sayings: LXXX. Teacher". "The Dial", www.alcott.net. January 1841.

• Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Nature, Stars, Ocean

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.123

• The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Eye, Titles, Deeds

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.13

• Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Travel, Eye, Errands

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

• Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I am mounted, see how he bends his once stiff neck to his rider, champing his checked bit and pawing the dust, impatient to leap around the globe. Genius is prescient, foresees its own might. Man is striving through these iron-ribbed, steam-sped hippogriffs, to recover his lost ubiquity and omnipotence, and threatens soon to grasp in his ample palm, and fix with flaming eye-ball, the elemental forces!

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Eye, Men, Dragons

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

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