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Quote by Henry Adams
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. - Henry Adams

Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. – Henry Adams

Other quotes by Henry Adams

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

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The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing. – Henry Adams

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Trust
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Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel. – Author Unknown

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The natural philosophers are mostly gone. We modern scientists are adding too many decimals. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates — but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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