Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• 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

• Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Genius, Firsts, Pariahs

  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”

• Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Education, Genius, May

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

• A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Friendship, Rest Of Life, Childhood

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.81

• Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Play, Genius, Faculty

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1836). “Conversations with Children on the Gospels”, p.39

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