Henry Adams ,quotes

Nothing is more tiresome than ...

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

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The less a tourist knows, the ...

The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.

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Society is immoral and immorta...

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

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If one shed tears, they must b...

If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.

Henry Adams 03.03.2018 03:03:03 291 quotes

My rule in making up examinati...

My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.

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Whenever a man reaches the top...

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.

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Politics cannot stop to study ...

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

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The capacity of women to make ...

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

Henry Adams 03.03.2018 03:03:03 291 quotes

It [love] is a disease to be b...

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

Henry Adams 03.03.2018 03:03:03 291 quotes

The proof that a philosopher d...

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 03.03.2018 03:03:03 291 quotes

Power is poison. Its effect on...

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.

Henry Adams 03.03.2018 03:03:03 291 quotes

I hate photographs abstractly,...

I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.

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The photograph is a coarse fra...

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

Henry Adams 03.03.2018 03:03:03 291 quotes

Women have, commonly, a very p...

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

Henry Adams 03.03.2018 03:03:03 291 quotes

In the one branch he most need...

In the one branch he most needed

Henry Adams 03.03.2018 03:03:03 291 quotes

Analogies are figures intended...

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

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I want to be advertised and th...

I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.

Henry Adams 03.03.2018 03:03:03 291 quotes

Mr Jefferson meant that the Am...

Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this principle, which to him represented all that man was worth, should fail. Mr Hamilton considered democracy a fatal curse, and meant to stop its progress.

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The tourist was the great cons...

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

Henry Adams 03.03.2018 03:03:03 291 quotes

The social side of Washington ...

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

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