Henry Adams Quotes
18 Quotes Found

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.
Henry Adams

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry Adams

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
Henry Adams

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams

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

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams