Quotes by Adams, Henry Brooks

"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   

"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   

"The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong."

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

Adams, Henry Brooks on 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   

"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   

"Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage."

Adams, Henry Brooks on chance   

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

Adams, Henry Brooks on taste   

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Adams, Henry Brooks on teacher
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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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