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Type: Historian Quotes Date of Birth: February 16, 1838 Date of Death: March 27, 1918 Find on Amazon: Henry B. Adams Related Authors: Christopher Lasch Stephen Ambrose Herodotus Hannah Arendt Sallust Will Durant Edward Gibbon |
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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