"They know enough who know how to learn."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Education
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"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Facts
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"One 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."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Friends and Friendship
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"As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore."

Adams, Henry Brooks on America
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"The proper study of mankind is woman."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Humankind
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"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Inferiority
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"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Liberty
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"The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Men and Women
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"Morality is a private and costly luxury."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Morality
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"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Order
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"Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Philosophers and Philosophy
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"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Politicians and Politics
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"Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Politicians and Politics
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"It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Possibilities
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"A friend in power is a friend lost."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Power
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"Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic."

Adams, Henry Brooks on President
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"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Society
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"Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Chance
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"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Taste
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Teachers and Teaching
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"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Adams, Henry Brooks on Words
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