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

Henry Adams

Nothing Education Astonishing Ignorance

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Friends are born, not made.

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Friends Born Made

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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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No man Means Says Words

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

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Teacher Affects eternity Never Influence stops

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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

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Chaos Law Nature Dream

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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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Politics Professions Systematic organization

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

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Chaos Breeds life Habit

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A friend in power is a friend lost.

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Friend Power Lost

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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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No man Intelligence Good faith Questioned

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Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

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Politics Unsatisfactory game

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It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

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Always Good men Most harm

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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

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Such thing Underestimate Average intelligence

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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

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Woman Known only Man Wrong

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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

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Accident counts Companionship Marriage

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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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One friends Lifetime Hardly possible

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Proper study Mankind Woman

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

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Absolute liberty Responsibility Free individual

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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

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Impossible Underrate Human intelligence One's own

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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

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Power Poison Tragic

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I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

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Written Much history Faith Wrong

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Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

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Man Imperceptible atom God

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

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One means Says Slippery Thought

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All experience is an arch, to build upon.

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All experience Arch Build upon

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At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

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At best Renewal Broken relations

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Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

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Edge Grave Man Conclude anything

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Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

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Every man Succeeded Effort Divinity

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Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

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Thank God Cheerful Happy stock

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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

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An anarchist Politics Impressionist

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Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

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Young men Passion Elders

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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

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Tell you Truth Trinity Accept

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A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

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Man Swallow Belief Digest

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Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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Politics Have Systematic Organization

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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

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Science Existence Mankind Power

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No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

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Man Politics Honestly

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"34 Henry Adams Quotes & Sayings

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

Henry Adams

Friends are born, not made.

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

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

Henry Adams

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Henry Adams

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Henry Adams

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Henry Adams

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

Henry Adams

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Henry Adams

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Henry Adams

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Henry Adams

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Henry Adams

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

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

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 - beginning with one's own.

Henry Adams

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Henry Adams

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Henry Adams

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Henry Adams

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

Henry Adams

Henry Adams

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

Henry Adams

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Henry Adams

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

Henry Adams

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

Henry Adams

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Henry Adams

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Henry Adams

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Henry Adams

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Henry Adams

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Henry Adams

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

Henry Adams

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