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Henry B. Adams Quotes


Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. Henry B. Adams Politics 81
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. Henry B. Adams Trust 78
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own. Henry B. Adams Intelligence 77
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. Henry B. Adams Marriage 75
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. Henry B. Adams Travel 69
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. Henry B. Adams Politics 60
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. Henry B. Adams Politics 58
All experience is an arch, to build upon. Henry B. Adams Experience 57
Friends are born, not made. Henry B. Adams Friend 47
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. Henry B. Adams Intelligence 47
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. Henry B. Adams Nature 40
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Henry B. Adams Politics 40
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. Henry B. Adams Society 38
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry B. Adams History 32
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. Henry B. Adams Science 26
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. Henry B. Adams Intelligence 24

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