Historian Quotes: Timeless Insights and Reflections (Page 4)

"Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education"

"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 B. Adams, Historian

"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"They know enough who know how to learn"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"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"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"It is always good men who do the most harm in the world"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor"

Tacitus, Historian

"It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt"

Tacitus, Historian

"Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it"

Tacitus, Historian

"Custom adapts itself to expediency"

Tacitus, Historian

"To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it"

Tacitus, Historian

"Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee"

Tacitus, Historian

"Things forbidden have a secret charm"

Tacitus, Historian

"Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir"

Tacitus, Historian

"Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader"

Tacitus, Historian

"Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor"

Tacitus, Historian

"Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop"

Tacitus, Historian

"It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured"

Tacitus, Historian

"Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin"

Tacitus, Historian

"All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end"

Tacitus, Historian

"A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all"

Tacitus, Historian

"A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man"

Tacitus, Historian

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