Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Quote by Henry Adams
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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
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Henry Adams Quotes
- No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
- He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
- All experience is an arch, to build upon.
- There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
- 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.
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- 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.
- Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
- Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
- It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
- If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
- I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
- Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
- I've lost my faith in science.
- Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.
- Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
- If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.