Henry Adams

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

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

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

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

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

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

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined read more

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.