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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry Adams
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.
Henry Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Henry Adams
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Henry Adams
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.
Henry Adams
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry Adams
Friends are born, not made.
Henry Adams
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.
Henry Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry Adams
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.
Henry Adams
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Henry Adams
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry Adams
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Henry Adams
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
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
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Henry Adams
Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
Henry Adams
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry Adams
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.
Henry Adams
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
Henry Adams
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry Adams
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up 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
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Henry Adams
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Henry Adams
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry Adams
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.
Henry Adams