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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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  • “I should start off by saying that I have a very deep affection for American Idol . It's a brilliant show, an absolute phenomenon in the history of television, and I'm not just saying that because they had me on as a guest judge and performer last year -- I truly enjoy the show and would watch it even if the contestants didn't sing my songs as part of the competition and keep my music in the minds of the record-buying public. Now, William Hung ... well, he's certainly no Clay Aiken, my all-time favorite American Idol participant for obvious reasons. But I have a special fondness for William, too -- after all, when I was starting out, people said I was funny-looking and couldn't sing. And even when I became a gigantic pop star in the '70s, I had nearly as many people who hated me as adored me, and let me tell you, a lot of people adored me! Now, could William have done a better job singing my song 'It's a Miracle,' which you can find on several of my Greatest Hits albums? Probably. But if he keeps at it despite what the millions of people who despise him think, then perhaps one day he, too, will sign an eight-year deal to entertain at the Las Vegas Hilton on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights, two shows on Saturday, senior citizen and group discounts available.” (Barry Manilow) [start/absolute/phenomenon/television]