Facts about Henry Brooks Adams

BornFebruary 16, 1838
DiedMarch 27, 1918
Aged80 years

Summary

Henry Brooks Adams was a famous author, 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 10 quotes who is written / told by Henry.

10 Famous quotes by Henry Brooks Adams

Small: A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest
"A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest"
Small: Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds
"Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds"
Small: I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature.
"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"
Small: Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in
"Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned"
Small: Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, pass
"Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants"
Small: Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by b
"Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world"
Small: Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatre
"Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds"
Small: One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three hardly possible
"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible"
Small: I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a worki
"I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics"
Small: A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops"