Henry Adams: Quotes

• Education

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

• Friends and Friendship

  One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.Henry Adams: The Education of Henry Adams

• Knowledge and Learning

  What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.Henry Adams: The Education of Henry Adams

• Order and Efficiency

  Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.Henry Adams: The Education of Henry Adams

• Politics and Politicians

  Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.Henry Adams: The Education of Henry Adams

• Rest

  We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable.Henry Adams: The Education of Henry Adams

• Teachers and Teaching

  A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.Henry Adams: The Education of Henry Adams