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Henry Adams [1838-1918] American

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Historian

Henry Brooks Adams was an American historian and member of the Adams political family, being descended from two U.S. Presidents.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.	Teacher	101
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.		102
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.	Nature	103
A friend in power is a friend lost.	Friendship, Power	104
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.	Alone	105
They know enough who know how to learn.		106
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.		107
All experience is an arch, to build upon.	Experience	108
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.	Education, Science	109
Friends are born, not made.	Friendship	110
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.	Politics	111
Morality is a private and costly luxury.		112
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.		113
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.	Education, Knowledge, Nature	114
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.		115
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.		116
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.		117
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.		118
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.		119
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.	Power, Science	120
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.	History	121
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.	Travel	122
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.		123
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.		124
The proper study of mankind is woman.		125
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.	Society	126
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.		201
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.	Politics	202
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.	Friendship	203
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.	Politics	204
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.	Intelligence	205
Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.		206
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.		207
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	208
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.		209
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.	Intelligence	210
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.		211
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.	Life, Sad	212
Intimates are predestined.		213
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.		214
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.		215
A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.		216
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.		217
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.		218
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.		219
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.		220
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.		221
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.		222
Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.		223
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.		224
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.	Intelligence	225
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.		226
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.		301

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