Henry Adams quotes and sayings
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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.