Quotes by Henry Brooks Adams

Henry Brooks Adams

Henry Brooks Adams

American historian

Lived from: 1838 - 1918

Category: History and sociology Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 16 february 1838 Died: 27 march 1918

  • As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

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  • Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
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  • Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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  • The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
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  • It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
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  • Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
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  • A friend in power is a friend lost.
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  • A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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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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  • Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
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  • American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
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  • As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
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  • Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
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  • Morality is a private and costly luxury.
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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 means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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  • Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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  • Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
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  • Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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  • The proper study of mankind is woman.
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  • They know enough who know how to learn.
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What are the most famous quotes from Henry Brooks Adams?

The two most famous quotes from Henry Brooks Adams are:

  • "Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."
  • "Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

When did Henry Brooks Adams live?

Henry Brooks Adams was born in 1838 and died in the year 1918.