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Knowledge Quotes by Henry Adams
- They know enough who know how to learn.
- Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
- After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing…
- Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but…
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