“There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.”
Intelligence
“A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.”
TeacherAll Quotes by Henry Adams
“The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.”
Alone“No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.”
Faith“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
History“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”
Politics“American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.”
Society“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.”
Power“Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.”
Nature“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“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
Education“Politics... have 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“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“Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.”
Marriage“Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.”
Politics“Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.”
Travel“He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.”
Politics“All experience is an arch, to build upon.”
Experience“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, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
Politics