Henry Adams

Good men do the most harm. ↗

— Henry Adams

#inspirational

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. ↗

— Henry Adams

#women #education

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights. ↗

— Henry Adams

#nature #science #education

In Paris and London he had seen nothing to make a return to life worth while; in Washington he saw plenty of reasons for staying dead. ↗

— Henry Adams

#washington #education

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt. ↗

— Henry Adams

#travel #education

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ↗

— Henry Adams

#education

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression. ↗

— Henry Adams

#education

[General Grant] seriously remarked to a particularly bright young woman that Venice would be a fine city if it were drained. ↗

— Henry Adams

#venice #education

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. ↗

— Henry Adams

#education

Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians. ↗

— Henry Adams

#paradox #education