“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.”
Life
“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
EducationAll Quotes by Henry Adams
“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.”
Power“The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.”
Alone“Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.”
Nature“There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.”
Intelligence“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.”
Intelligence“Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
Politics“Friends are born, not made.”
Friendship“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
Politics“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.”
Art“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
History“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.”
Education“No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.”
Faith“Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.”
Politics“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.”
Friendship“He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.”
Politics“The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.”
Trust“A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.”
Teacher“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.”
Faith“Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
Politics