Henry B Adams quotes

" A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. " # Teachers and Teaching # Love # Influence

" Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. " # Facts # Education # Knowledge

" Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. " # self-esteem # Words # Love

" No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. " # Words

" Whatever happens at all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely. " # Happiness # Action # Death and Dying

" A friend in power is a friend lost. " # Power

" Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. " # Order # Habit # Chaos

" What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn. " # Youth # Age and Aging # Learning

" Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. " # Politicians and Politics # Hatred # Science and Scientists

" Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. " # Politicians and Politics # Practice # Ignorance