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Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.
— Henry Adams
What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
— Henry Adams
Intimates are predestined.
— Henry Adams
Man loves most that which is his own.
— Henry Adams
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
— Henry Adams
Planting is not the end; it is only the beginning of planting.
— Henry Sherman Adams
Henry Adams, like most people, saw society in his own image.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick.
— Henry Adams
An artist's business is only to see.
— Henry Adams
[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.
— Henry Adams
History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.
— Henry Adams
The world grew cheap, as worlds must.
— Henry Adams
Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.
— Henry Adams
Certain plants, like certain friends, you enjoy having for a visit but do not care to see remain forever and a day.
— Henry Sherman Adams
Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.
— Henry Adams
Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.
— Henry Adams
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
— Henry Adams
As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.
— Henry Adams
If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.
— Henry Adams
An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.
— Henry Adams
The mind resorts to reason for want of training.
— Henry Adams
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.
— 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
History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.
— Henry Adams
I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.
— Henry Adams
The world is coming to an end in 1950.
— Henry Adams
Friends are born, not made.
— Henry Adams
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.
— Henry Adams
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
— Henry Adams
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
— Henry Adams
His brothers were the type; he was the variation.
— Henry Adams
When one thinks what one leaves in the world when one dies, Only silence is strong, - all the rest is but lies.
— Henry Adams
The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.
— Henry Adams
American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.
— Henry Adams
One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.
— Henry Adams
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
— Henry Adams
A friend in power is a friend lost.
— Henry Adams
History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.
— Henry Adams
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
— Henry Adams
Every mane should have a fair sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friend.
— 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
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
— Henry Adams
I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.
— Henry Adams
But as we all know, rock 'n' roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on forever.
— Thomas Pynchon
For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.
— Henry Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
— Henry Adams
Nothing is easier to teach than historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.
— Henry Adams
My natural pessimism now works on Hay's natural pessimism until we are both quite out of our minds." Henry Adams
— John Taliaferro
Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.
— Henry Adams
Henry James chews more than he bites off.
— Henry Adams
Everyone must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.
— Henry Adams
A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
— Henry Adams
Good men do the most harm.
— Henry Adams
The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.
— Henry Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
— Henry Adams
The proper study of mankind is woman.
— Henry Adams
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
— Henry Adams
Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself
— Henry Adams
Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?
— Robert Adams
We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.
— Henry Adams
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.
— Henry Adams
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.
— Henry Adams
Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.
— Henry Adams
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
— Henry Adams
The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.
— Henry Adams
It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.
— Henry Adams
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.
— Henry Adams
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
— Henry Adams
The world can absorb only doses of truth," he said; "too much would kill it." One sought education in order to adjust the dose.
— Henry Adams
Shun artificial rocks like the plague.
— Henry Sherman Adams
Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.
— Henry Adams
The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.
— Henry Adams
The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.
— Henry Adams
He betrayed the consciousness that he and his people had a past, if they dared but avow it, and might have a future, if they could but divine it.
— Henry Adams
In the one branch he most needed
— Henry Adams
Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.
— Henry Adams
Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.
— Henry Adams
A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.
— Henry Adams
Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.
— Henry Adams