Henry Adams Quotes About History

• It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the Potomac. I want to get the whole army of Vicksburg drunk at my own expense. I want to fight some small man and lick him.

  Henry Adams

  Guerra, Lucha, Ejército

• History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

  Henry Adams

  History, Fleas, Irritated

  Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton

• La historia es la más aristocrática de todas las actividades literarias, porque obliga al historiador a ser rico además de culto.

  Henry Adams

  History, Rich, Pursuit

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.204, Harvard University Press

• History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

  Henry Adams

  History, Forgotten, Catalogues

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.37, Penguin

• Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

  Henry Adams

  Historia, Histórico, Uso

  "Grandes vidas americanas: La autobiografía de Benjamin Franklin, Memorias personales de Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiografía de Andrew Carnegie y La educación de Henry Adams".

• My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water.

  Henry Adams

  History, Water, Development

  Henry Adams, Jacob Clavner Levenson, Massachusetts Historical Society (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams: 1868-1885”

• History is only a value of relation.

  Henry Adams

  History, Relation, Values

  Henry Adams (1963). “The Education of Henry Adams: And Other Selected Writings”, New York, Twayne Pub

• As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.

  Henry Adams

  Play, History, Chinese

• La gente de aquí está bastante sorprendida por las noticias del domingo sobre la toma de Nueva Orleans. Tardaron tres días en creérselo. La división de América se había convertido en una idea tan fija que habían cerrado todas las vías a la recepción de cualquier otra.

  Henry Adams

  War, Believe, Sunday

• One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

  Henry Adams

  Guerra, Años, Historia

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.57, Harvard University Press

• No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

  Henry Adams

  Race, History, Statistics

  The Education of Henry Adams Vis Interiae (p. 447)

• The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrinefor a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction.

  Henry Adams

  Rome, Years, History

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1343, Open Road Media

• In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.

  Henry Adams

  Cutting, History, United States

• The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

  Henry Adams

  Honesty, History, Trying

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1670, Open Road Media

• As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.

  Henry Adams

  Play, History, Chinese

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.328, Harvard University Press

• A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

  Henry Adams

  History, Definitions, Want

  Henry Adams (1920). “The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma”

• One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

  Henry Adams

  Truth, Wind, History

  Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.723, The Floating Press

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