Quotes by Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmar — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
The habit of looking at life as a social relation — an affair of society — did no good. It cultivated a weakness which n — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights. — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
A friend in power is a friend lost. — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
A new friend is always a miracle...One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarchic and purposeless — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathe — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt. — Henry Adams, The Education of 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, The Education of Henry Adams
Charles Francis Adams was singular for mental poise — absence of self-assertion or self-consciousness — the faculty of s — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects et — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
One had heard and read a great deal about death, and even seen a little of it, and knew by heart the thousand commonplac — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of re — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
Evolution of mind was altogether another matter and belonged to another science, but whether one traced descent from the — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams