Henry Adams
Biography
Quotes
- The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
- 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.
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
