Adams, Henry Brooks quotes
1838-1918 American HistorianThey know enough who know how to learn.
Adams, Henry Brooks
Education
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Adams, Henry Brooks
Chance
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Adams, Henry Brooks
Facts
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Adams, Henry Brooks
Friends and Friendship
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Adams, Henry Brooks
Liberty
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Adams, Henry Brooks
Power
The proper study of mankind is woman.
Adams, Henry Brooks
Humankind
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Adams, Henry Brooks
Inferiority
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Adams, Henry Brooks
Men and Women
Power is poison. It s effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Adams, Henry Brooks
President
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Adams, Henry Brooks
Politicians and Politics
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Adams, Henry Brooks
Order
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Adams, Henry Brooks
Philosophers and Philosophy
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Adams, Henry Brooks
Morality
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one s own.
Adams, Henry Brooks
Possibilities
Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Adams, Henry Brooks
Politicians and Politics
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Adams, Henry Brooks
Society
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Adams, Henry Brooks
Teachers and Teaching
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Adams, Henry Brooks
Taste
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it s a bore.
Adams, Henry Brooks
America
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Adams, Henry Brooks
Words