Quote: They know enough who know how to learn. [Henry Brooks Adams]
Quote: Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. [Henry Brooks Adams]
Quote: Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. [Henry Brooks Adams]
Quote: 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 Brooks Adams]
Quote: Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. [Henry Brooks Adams]
Quote: A friend in power is a friend lost. [Henry Brooks Adams]
Quote: The proper study of mankind is woman. [Henry Brooks Adams]
Quote: The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. [Henry Brooks Adams]
Quote: Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. [Henry Brooks Adams]
Quote: Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. [Henry Brooks Adams]
Quote: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. [Henry Brooks Adams]
Quote: Morality is a private and costly luxury. [Henry Brooks Adams]
Quote: Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. [Henry Brooks Adams]
Quote: American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. [Henry Brooks Adams]
Quote: A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. [Henry Brooks Adams]
Quote: Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. [Henry Brooks Adams]
Quote: No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. [Henry Brooks Adams]
Quote: No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. [Henry Brooks Adams]