Henry Adams quotes

Henry Adams was an American historian, novelist, and critic, renowned for his influential works on history and culture. His writings explored themes of education, politics, and the complexities of modern life. He is remembered for "The Education of Henry Adams" and his deep reflections on American society. Here are 332 of his quotes:

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. (Henry Adams)
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops. View quote
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A friend in power is a friend lost. View quote
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. View quote
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They know enough who know how to learn. View quote
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. View quote
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Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. View quote
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. View quote
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All experience is an arch, to build upon. View quote
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. View quote
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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. (Henry Adams)
Friends are born, not made. View quote
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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. View quote
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Intimates are predestined. View quote
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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. View quote
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We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. View quote
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. View quote
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. View quote
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Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. View quote
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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. View quote
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Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts. (Henry Adams)
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world. View quote
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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. View quote
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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. View quote
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand. View quote
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Henry Adams

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Occupation: American Journalist
Born: February 16, 1838
Died: March 27, 1918
Quotes count: 332
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