Henry Adams Quotes
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of iner...
Show MoreNo one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean.
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certai...
Show MoreA new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in t...
Show MoreCharles Francis Adams was singular for mental poise — absence of self-assertion or self-consciousnes...
Show MoreA new friend is always a miracle...One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly ...
Show MoreThe study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
Evolution of mind was altogether another matter and belonged to another science, but whether one tra...
Show MoreFor the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarc...
Show MoreThe habit of looking at life as a social relation — an affair of society — did no good. It cultivate...
Show MoreOne had heard and read a great deal about death, and even seen a little of it, and knew by heart the...
Show MoreNo man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
Show MoreHe never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for l...
Show MoreA parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. ...
Show MoreThe difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers,...
Show MoreThe tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.
Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taugh...
Show MoreThe habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuu...
Show MoreThe first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a ...
Show MoreNature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.
He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathemat...
Show MoreWashington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outsi...
Show MoreI, too, like yourself was a good party man: my party was that of the Church; I was ultramontane. You...
Show MoreFriends are born, not made.
Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.
From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, disciplin...
Show MorePolitics as a practice whatever its professions has always been the systematic organization of ha...
Show MoreEveryone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherev...
Show MoreAll experience is an arch, to build upon.
Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite i...
Show MoreThese questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own i...
Show MoreThe Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad like the season and infinite i...
Show MoreThey know enough who know how to learn.
Good men do the most harm.
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset D...
Show MorePolitics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it...
Show MoreFriendship needs a certain parallelism of life a community of thought a rivalry of aim.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of ha...
Show MoreEveryone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherev...
Show MoreHe too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide b...
Show MoreKnowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
