Henry Brooks Adams Quotes & Quotations
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. - Henry Brooks Adams
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. - Henry Brooks Adams
Friends are born, not made. - Henry Brooks Adams
Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic. - Henry Brooks Adams
Morality is a private and costly luxury. - Henry Brooks Adams
Politics have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. - Henry Brooks Adams
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. - Henry Brooks Adams
A friend in power is a friend lost. - Henry Brooks Adams
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore. - Henry Brooks Adams
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. - Henry Brooks Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. - Henry Brooks Adams
Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. - Henry Brooks Adams
No historian can take part with, or against, the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics. - Henry Brooks Adams
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence, beginning with one's own. - Henry Brooks Adams
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. - Henry Brooks Adams
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. - Henry Brooks Adams
What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn. - Henry Brooks Adams
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. - Henry Brooks Adams
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. - Henry Brooks Adams
Friends are born, not made. - Henry Brooks Adams
Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic. - Henry Brooks Adams
Morality is a private and costly luxury. - Henry Brooks Adams
Politics have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. - Henry Brooks Adams
A friend in power is a friend lost. - Henry Brooks Adams
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore. - Henry Brooks Adams
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. - Henry Brooks Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. - Henry Brooks Adams
Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. - Henry Brooks Adams
No historian can take part with, or against, the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics. - Henry Brooks Adams
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence, beginning with one's own. - Henry Brooks Adams
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. - Henry Brooks Adams
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. - Henry Brooks Adams
What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn. - Henry Brooks Adams
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. - Henry Brooks Adams
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams