Home > Henry Adams Quotations

Henry Adams Quotations

We found 17 matching quotations.

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
Friends are born, not made.
Whatever happens at all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely.
Henry James chews more than he bites off.
Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.
What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn.
One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
A teacher affects eternity; He can never tell where his influence stops.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence--beginning with one's own.

Bookmark this page at: digg this!  |  del.icio.us!  |  stumbleupon  |  spurl  |  simpy  |  furl  |  reddit