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Danh ngôn của Henry Adams (Sứ mệnh: 9)

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Friends are born, not made.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
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.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.