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Quotes of Henry Brooks Adams (Usa)

1878-1962 American Author
  • They know enough who know how to learn. (education)
  • Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. (chance)
  • Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. (facts)
  • 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. (friends and friendsh)
  • Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. (freedom (liberty))
  • A friend in power is a friend lost. (friends and friendsh)
  • The proper study of mankind is woman. (mankind)
  • The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. (men and women)
  • Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. (politics)
  • Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. (order-anarchy)
  • Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. (philosophy)
  • Morality is a private and costly luxury. (unknown)
  • Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. (politics)
  • American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. (society)
  • A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (teachers and teachin)
  • Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. (taste)
  • No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. (words)
  • They know enough who know how to learn. (education)
  • Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. (chance)
  • Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. (facts)
  • 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. (friends and friendsh)
  • Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. (liberty)
  • A friend in power is a friend lost. (power)
  • The proper study of mankind is woman. (humankind)
  • No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. (inferiority)
  • Adams, Henry Brooks

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