The Education of Henry Adams Quotes

“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

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“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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“The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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“That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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“Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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“All experience is an arch, to build upon.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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“Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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“He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence—of talking without meaning—is never effaced.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, had always been the systematic organization of hatreds, and Massachusetts politics had been as harsh as the climate.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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