Henry Adams Quotes

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

topic:life

“A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

topic:life

“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, The Education of Henry Adams

topic:life friendship thought

“No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic stations in life have the effect of fixing a certain stiffness of attitude forever, as though they mesmerized the...”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts, and all Roosevelt's friends know that his restless and combative energy was more than abnormal.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

topic:power

“Every friend in power is a friend lost.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

topic:power friendship

“Friends are born, not made”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

topic:friendship

“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

topic:nature humanity

“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

topic: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

topic:education ignorance

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