Creative Quotations from . . .
Henry Brooks Adams
(1838-1918) born on Feb 16
US "historian, author". "He won a Pulitzer for "Education of Henry Adams," 1919."
 
   
F
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

R
"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."
A
Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
N
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
K
"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "Peter's Quotations," by Laurence J. Peter, 1977."
R: ""The Education of Henry Adams," ch.16."
A: "Adams's definition of philosophy; in "The So-Called Human Race," by Bert Leston Taylor, 1922."
N: From an Internet collection of quotations.
K: "Letter, 20 Sep 1911."
   



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