Henry Adams on Creativity
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Henry Adams, catalogued under creativity, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Henry Adams, entry #200967: "All experience is an arch, to build upon."
Attributed to Henry Adams, entry #66641: "As long as he could whisper, he would go on as he had begun, bluntly refusing to meet his creator with the admission that the creation had taught him nothing except that the squar…"
2 Quotes by Henry Adams on Creativity
"All experience is an arch, to build upon."
"As long as he could whisper, he would go on as he had begun, bluntly refusing to meet his creator with the admission that the creation had taught him nothing except that the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle might for convenience be taken as equal to something else. Every man with self-respect enough to become effective, if only as a machine, has had to account to himself for himself somehow, and to invent a formula of his own for his universe, if the standard formulas failed."