Logo
Quote by Henry Adams
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with ones own. – Henry Adams

Other quotes by Henry Adams

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that its a bore. – Henry Adams

Category:
America
Author
Henry Adams
Read Quote

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. – Henry Adams

Category:
Miscellaneous
Author
Henry Adams
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Intelligence
category

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing. – Louis Freeh

Category:
Intelligence

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect. – John Kenneth Galbraith

Category:
Intelligence

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. – G. K. Chesterton

Category:
Intelligence

I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context. – Ted Stevens

Category:
Intelligence

Random Quotes

Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. – Michael Strassfeld

Category:
Light

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. – William Lyon Mackenzie King

Category:
Government

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster. – Martha Beck

Category:
Age

The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety. – Jonathan Sacks

Category:
Peace