Henry Adams Quotes

American - Historian February 16, 1838 - March 27, 1918

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. - Henry Adams

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

Teacher, Influence, Never, Eternity, He

Friends are born, not made. - Henry Adams

Friends are born, not made.

Friendship, Friends, Born, Made

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

Politics, Organization, Always, Whatever

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

Man, Thought, Words, Say, Mean, He

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Man, Simplicity, Mistress, Most, Ever

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

Politics, Man, He, Should, Rather, Would

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

Education, Science, Ignorance, Facts

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.

Men, Power, Self, Victim, Publicity

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

Society, Without, American, Reaction

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Experience, Build, Arch

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

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Life, History, Habit, Chaos, Order

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Problems, Philosophy, Answers

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

Politics, Purpose, Only, Who, Cheers, He

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.

Trust, Purpose, Nobody, Nothing, Tell

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

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Friendship, Friend, Power, Lost

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

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

Politics, Organization, Always, Been

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.

Life, Friendship, Friend, Community, Aim

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

Man, Edge, Only, Anything, Grave

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Day, Science, Power, World, Suicide, Up

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

Responsibility, Free, Liberty, Absence

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

Good, Men, World, Always, Good Men, Most

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

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

Nature, Man, Law, Dream, Chaos, Order

They know enough who know how to learn.

Know, Enough, Learn, Who, How

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

Good, Faith, Man, Intelligence, He, His

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

Alone, Progress, Upset, Evolution, Grant

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

God, Woman, Heart, Man, Effort, Long

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