Henry Brooks Adams

Henry Brooks Adams: Nothing in education...

Henry Brooks Adams: Nothing in education...

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

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Henry Brooks Adams: Chaos often breeds...

Henry Brooks Adams: Chaos often breeds...

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Source: The Education of Henry...

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Henry Brooks Adams: Philosophy: unintelligible answers...

Henry Brooks Adams: Philosophy: unintelligible answers...

Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Source: Adams's...

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Henry Brooks Adams: No man means...

Henry Brooks Adams: No man means...

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

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Henry Brooks Adams: American society is...

Henry Brooks Adams: American society is...

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

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Henry Brooks Adams: Everyone carries his...

Henry Brooks Adams: Everyone carries his...

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

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Henry Brooks Adams: It is impossible...

Henry Brooks Adams: It is impossible...

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

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Henry Brooks Adams: It is always...

Henry Brooks Adams: It is always...

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

Source: Comment on Robert...

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Henry Brooks Adams: No man likes...

Henry Brooks Adams: No man likes...

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

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Henry Brooks Adams: A teacher affects...

Henry Brooks Adams: A teacher affects...

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

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Henry Brooks Adams: Practical politics consists...

Henry Brooks Adams: Practical politics consists...

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Source: The Education of Henry...

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Henry Brooks Adams: Absolute liberty is...

Henry Brooks Adams: Absolute liberty is...

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

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Henry Brooks Adams: As for America,...

Henry Brooks Adams: As for America,...

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable,...

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Henry Brooks Adams: Politics, whatever its...

Henry Brooks Adams: Politics, whatever its...

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of...

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Henry Brooks Adams: Power is poison....

Henry Brooks Adams: Power is poison....

Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Source: The...

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Henry Brooks Adams: They know enough...

Henry Brooks Adams: They know enough...

They know enough who know how to learn.

Source: The Education of Henry Adams.
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Henry Brooks Adams: Morality is a...

Henry Brooks Adams: Morality is a...

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Henry Brooks Adams: Politics, as a...

Henry Brooks Adams: Politics, as a...

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organisation of...

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Henry Brooks Adams: One friend in...

Henry Brooks Adams: One friend in...

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of...

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Henry Brooks Adams: A friend in...

Henry Brooks Adams: A friend in...

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Source: The Education of Henry Adams.
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