No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean,
for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
-- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918), "The Education of Henry Adams", 1907
for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
-- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918), "The Education of Henry Adams", 1907
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- A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence ends.
-- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) "The Education of Henry Adams" (1907)... - 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.... - A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
-- Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adam... - Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it
accumulates in the form of inert facts.
-- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)... - A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
--Henry Adam, The Education of Henry Adam... - Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
-- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) "The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma... - Mathematicians practice absolute freedom. -- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)
- Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. -- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)
- Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the
systematic organisation of hatreds.
-- Henry Adams, "The Education of Henry Adam...
