Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

Quote by Henry Brooks Adams

Topics: Chaos Quotes, Habit Quotes, Life Quotes, Order Quotes

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

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

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...

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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...

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take...

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take...

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

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

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...

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being,...

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being,...

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,...

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.

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...

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...

They know enough who know how to learn.

They know enough who know how to learn.

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

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

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a...

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a...

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

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

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks...

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks...

For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved...

For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved...

On a day you least expect a dozen roses will you get. But a dozen...

On a day you least expect a dozen roses will you get. But a dozen...

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love is all, love is new. Love is all, love is you

Love is all, love is new. Love is all, love is you