No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Quote by Henry Adams
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
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Henry Adams Quotes
- I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
- All experience is an arch, to build upon.
- He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
- 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.
- No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
- It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
- There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
- Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Best Quotes
- I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
- I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
- The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!
- Money: power at its most liquid.
- I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
- People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.
- We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
- The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.
- You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.
- My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.