Henry Adams Quotes About Doubt

Quotes about: Doubt

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

  Henry Adams

  Men, Doubt, Inferiority

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.287, Penguin

• After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing between flashes of intense perception. ... Rigidly denying himself the amusement of philosophy, which consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems, and liked to wander past them in a courteous temper, even bowing to them distantly as though recognizing their existence, while doubting their respectibility.

  Henry Adams

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

• Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it. No doubt the teacher is the worst criminal, but the world stands behind him and drags the student from his course.

  Henry Adams

  Teacher, Doubt, Mind

  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.1543, Open Road Media

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