Another Twelve Quotes by Henry Adams

More Quotes by Henry Adams

Henry Adams has 161 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Friends are born, not made.
• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
• The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and…
• Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the…
• Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
• Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
• I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand…
• Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
• At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
• Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
• There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
• All experience is an arch, to build upon.

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