Adams, Henry (Henry Adams)

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
-- Henry Adams

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
-- Henry Adams

They know enough who know how to learn.

-- Henry Adams

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

-- Henry Adams

A friend in power is a friend lost.
-- Henry Adams

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
-- Henry Adams

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
-- Henry Adams

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence
-- Henry Adams

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
-- Henry Adams

No historian can take part with
-- Henry Adams

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
-- Henry Adams

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
-- Henry Adams

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
-- Henry Adams

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.
-- Henry Adams

Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
-- Henry Adams

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
-- Henry Adams

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
-- Henry Adams

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
-- Henry Adams

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
-- Henry Adams

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
-- Henry Adams

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