Henry Adams quotes

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops. (Henry Adams)
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry Adams
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams
They know enough who know how to learn.
Henry Adams
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Adams
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Henry Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry Adams
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Henry Adams
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry Adams
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. (Henry Adams)
Friends are born, not made.
Henry Adams
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Henry Adams
Intimates are predestined.
Henry Adams
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Henry Adams
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
Henry Adams
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry Adams
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Henry Adams
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
Henry Adams
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.
Henry Adams
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts. (Henry Adams)
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
Henry Adams
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.
Henry Adams
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Henry Adams
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.
Henry Adams