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Category: Henry Adams

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Life, Chaos, Habit

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

Good, Faith, Man

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

Underestimate, Average

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

Beginning, Impossible, Human

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.

Influence, Never, Where

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

Education, Ignorance, Facts

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Day, Power, World

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

education, knowledge

Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.

Man, Law, Chaos

No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean.

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.

teachers, teaching