Henry B. Adams Quotes

» Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

» Friends are born, not made.

» No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

» A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.

» He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

» In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.

» Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

» Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

» A friend in power is a friend lost.

» No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

» No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

» Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

» The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

» It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

» There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

» The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

» Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

» They know enough who know how to learn.

» One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

» The proper study of mankind is woman.

» Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

» American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

» Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

» It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

» Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

» Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

» Morality is a private and costly luxury.

» Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.

» All experience is an arch, to build upon.

» At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

» Intimates are predestined.

» Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

» Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

» Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

» Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

» Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

» Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

» The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

» The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

» The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

» The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

» The progress of Evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.

» We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

» What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

» Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

» Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

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