All Henry B. Adams Quotes
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Henry B. Adams
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
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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.
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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Henry B. Adams
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry B. Adams
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
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In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
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The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
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A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Henry B. Adams
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