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

Quote by Henry Brooks Adams

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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.

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

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

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...

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so...

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so...

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...

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...

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...

Morality is a private and costly luxury

Morality is a private and costly luxury

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

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

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

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 are a very unsatisfactory game.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

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,...

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...

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

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...

Evil events from evil causes spring.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the...

As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the...

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man...

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man...

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest...

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest...