01UndatedEvolution of mind was altogether another matter and belonged to another science, but whether one traced descent from the shark or the wolf was immaterial even in morals. This matter had been discussed for ages without scientific result. La Fontaine and other fabulists maintained that the wolf, even in morals, stood higher than man; and in view of the late civil war, Adams had doubts of his own on the facts of moral evolution:Henry Adams / quote ↗
02UndatedNothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.Henry Adams / quote ↗
03UndatedFriendship needs a certain parallelism of life a community of thought a rivalry of aim.Henry Adams / quote ↗
07UndatedThe Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad like the season and infinite in wealth and depth of tone - but never hustled.Henry Adams / quote ↗
09UndatedPolitics as a practice whatever its professions has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.Henry Adams / quote ↗
10UndatedEveryone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.Henry Adams / quote ↗
11UndatedA teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.Henry Adams / quote ↗
14UndatedKnowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.Henry Adams / quote ↗
15UndatedSome day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.Henry Adams / quote ↗
16UndatedNo man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.Henry Adams / quote ↗
18UndatedIt is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.Henry Adams / quote ↗
21UndatedPolitics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.Henry Adams / quote ↗
24UndatedOne 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 / quote ↗
