Henry Adams's Quotes

Henry Adams's Quotes 26

The press is the hired agent of a monied system and set up for no other...

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste and amuses himself by applying...

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

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American society is a sort of flat fresh-water pond which absorbs silently...

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power and the human...

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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Politics as a practise whatever its professions has always been the...

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Politics as a practice whatever its professions has always been the...

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

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

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad like the...

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

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

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible....

Friends are born not made.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned especially if...

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm...

All experience is an arch to build upon.

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

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it...

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