Henry Adams quotes Born: 02/16/1838 Died: 04/27/1918 Country: usa

• 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)
• Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God. (Henry Adams)
• No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. (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)
• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (Henry Adams)
• A friend in power is a friend lost. (Henry Adams)
• Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. (Henry Adams)
• Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. (Henry Adams)
• All experience is an arch, to build upon. (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)
• At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. (Henry Adams)
• Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. (Henry Adams)
• Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. (Henry Adams)
• Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. (Henry Adams)
• Friends are born, not made. (Henry Adams)
• He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. (Henry Adams)
• Intimates are predestined. (Henry Adams)
• It is always good men who do the most harm in the world. (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)
• Morality is a private and costly luxury. (Henry Adams)
• No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. (Henry Adams)
• No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. (Henry Adams)
• No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. (Henry Adams)
• Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. (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)
• Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything. (Henry Adams)
• Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. (Henry Adams)
• Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. (Henry Adams)
• Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. (Henry Adams)

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