Henry B. Adams was a famous Historian from USA, who lived between February 16, 1838 and March 27, 1918. He/she became 80 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac aquarius, who is known for Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous.
Our collection contains 38 quotes who is written / told by Henry, under the main topics: History - Friendship - Experience - Travel.
38 Famous quotes by Henry B. Adams
"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile"
"The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong"
"Friends are born, not made"
"Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts"
"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers"
"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man"
"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it"
"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself"
"They know enough who know how to learn"
"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"
"Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything"
"It is always good men who do the most harm in the world"
"At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter"
"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops"
"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels"
"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin"
"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"
"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"
"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts"
"Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic"
"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds"
"No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else"
"Morality is a private and costly luxury"
"Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage"
"Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man"
"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems"
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts"
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous"
"It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own"
"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit"
"All experience is an arch, to build upon"
"Intimates are predestined"
"A friend in power is a friend lost"
"We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable"
"Politics are a very unsatisfactory game"
"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"
"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself"
