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Henry B. Adams Quotes

Type:
Historian Quotes
Date of Birth:
February 16, 1838
Date of Death:
March 27, 1918
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Henry B. Adams

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A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry B. Adams

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
Henry B. Adams

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

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Henry B. Adams

Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.
Henry B. Adams

All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Henry B. Adams

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

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
Henry B. Adams

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry B. Adams

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Henry B. Adams

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

Friends are born, not made.
Henry B. Adams

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

In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
Henry B. Adams

Intimates are predestined.
Henry B. Adams

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
Henry B. Adams

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

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

Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Henry B. Adams

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

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

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

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

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.
Henry B. Adams

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
Henry B. Adams

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Henry B. Adams

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
Henry B. Adams

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

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Henry B. Adams

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
Henry B. Adams

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry B. Adams

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Henry B. Adams

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Henry B. Adams

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.
Henry B. Adams

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.
Henry B. Adams

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.
Henry B. Adams

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.
Henry B. Adams

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

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry B. Adams

The proper study of mankind is woman.
Henry B. Adams

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Henry B. Adams

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

They know enough who know how to learn.
Henry B. Adams

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

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

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
Henry B. Adams


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