Amos Bronson Alcott - Genius Quotes

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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

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

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

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

Amos Bronson Alcott

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

Amos Bronson Alcott

Enduring fame is ever posthumous. The orbs of virtue and genius seldom culminate during their terrestrial periods. Slow is the growth of great names, slow the procession of excellence into arts, institutions, life. Ages alone reflect their fulness of lustre. The great not only unseal, but create the organs by which they are to be seen. Neither Socrates nor Jesus is yet visible to the world.

Amos Bronson Alcott