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Study Quotes by Henry Adams
- The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
- I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women…
- The proper study of mankind is woman.
- Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.
- No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a…
- Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility…
- Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.
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