Henry B. Adams

Henry B. Adams

Country Unknown
Born Monday, 30 November -0001
Category Social Activists
Quotes 42

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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own. Uncategorized
Intimates are predestined. Uncategorized
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. Uncategorized
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. Uncategorized
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. Uncategorized
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. Uncategorized
A friend in power is a friend lost. Uncategorized
They know enough who know how to learn. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. Uncategorized
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. Uncategorized
Morality is a private and costly luxury. Uncategorized
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world. Uncategorized
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. Uncategorized
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. Uncategorized
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. Uncategorized
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Uncategorized
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. Uncategorized

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