Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Intuition, Criminal Mind, Speak

  "Fictional character: Aaron Hotchner". "Criminal Minds". Season 4, Episode 6: "The Instincts", www.imdb.com. November 05, 2008.

• Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Life, Remembrance, Joy

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

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

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Truth, School, Charity

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

• Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Morning, Water, Sunrise

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.62

• What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Men, Giving, Prejudice

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.31

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