It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Quote by Henry Brooks Adams

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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a...

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a...

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of...

Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of...

The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution...

The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution...

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one...

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one...

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity...

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity...

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of...

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of...

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

They know enough who know how to learn.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers,...

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers,...

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

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

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

A friend in power is a friend lost.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate...

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate...

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is...

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is...

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks...

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks...

'Impossible' is not a scientific term.

'Impossible' is not a scientific term.