Henry Adams Quotes

Henry Adams Quotes

Henry Adams Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Henry Adams:

"Friends are born, not made."

"A friend in power is a friend lost."

"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence."

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

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

"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about himself."