No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Quote by Henry B. Adams about man
Quotes by Henry B. Adams, page 2
46 quotes by Henry B. Adams
Henry B. Adams - historian, jurnalist and novelist
Was born on 16 feb 1838.
Died on 27 mar 1918, at 80 years old.
Died on 27 mar 1918, at 80 years old.
Origin country: United States
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Quote by Henry B. Adams about ignorance, education, nothing
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.
Quote by Henry B. Adams about friendship, thinking, life
Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Quote by Henry B. Adams about philosophy, problems
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Quote by Henry B. Adams about politics
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Quote by Henry B. Adams about power
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
Quote by Henry B. Adams about power
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Quote by Henry B. Adams about simplicity, man
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Quote by Henry B. Adams about force, genius
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.
Quote by Henry B. Adams about americans
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.
Quote by Henry B. Adams about advertising, victims, end, self-control, power, man
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.
Quote by Henry B. Adams about press, purpose, nothing
The progress of Evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.
Quote by Henry B. Adams about evolution, progress
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Quote by Henry B. Adams about bad, woman, man
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Quote by Henry B. Adams about intelligence, things
