Henry Adams Quotes

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

Human, Impossible, Beginning

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

Education, Nature, Knowledge

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
Henry Adams

God, Trying, Become

Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Henry Adams

Morality, Private, Luxury

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

Faith, Good, Himself

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

Mean, Words, Thought

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

Strong, Else, However

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

Science, Education, Ignorance

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

Edge, Grave, Conclude

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Henry Adams

Philosophy, Problems, Answers

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
Henry Adams

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

Politics, Whatever, Practice

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

Politics, Whatever, Hatreds

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

Politics, Hatreds, Systematic

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

Power, Effect, Poison

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

Power, Energy, Serious

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry Adams

Politics, Facts, Practical

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

Mistress, Simplicity, Betrayed

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

Genius, Highest, Forces

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
Henry Adams

God, Happy, Remember

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 Adams

American, Sea, President

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 Adams

Read, Whether, Influence

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 Adams

Men, Power, Self

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

Alone, Progress, President

The proper study of mankind is woman.
Henry Adams

Woman, Study, Mankind

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: February 16, 1838

Died: March 27, 1918

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