Henry Adams Quotes
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
American historian
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Henry Adams
American historian
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
Henry Adams
American historian
A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
Henry Adams
American historian
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
Henry Adams
American historian
Intimates are predestined.
Henry Adams
American historian
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Henry Adams
American historian
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Henry Adams
American historian
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Henry Adams
American historian
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Henry Adams
American historian
They know enough who know how to learn.
Henry Adams
American historian
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Henry Adams
American historian
Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
Henry Adams
American historian
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
Henry Adams
American historian
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
American historian
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.
Henry Adams
American historian
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
Henry Adams
American historian
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
Henry Adams
American historian
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams
American historian
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry Adams
American historian
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