"The Education of Henry Adams" Quotes
"The Education of Henry Adams" is a memoir that reflects on the author's life and the changing world around him.
biography | 320 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.
The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine forest.
The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind.
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
The greatest act of courage is to be and to own all that you are without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.
A man can do almost anything he wants if he is willing to pay the price.
Nothing in life is so good as it seems beforehand.
