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Henry Adams quotes and sayings

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amou... (Henry Adams)

Henry Adams

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


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

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Henry Adams quotes

  • Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
  • It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
  • There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
  • At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
  • It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
  • The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
  • Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
  • Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
  • Morality is a private and costly luxury.
  • Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
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