James Truslow Adams Quotes

United States, Writer
October 18, 1878 – May, 18, 1949.

James Truslow Adams (October 18, 1878 – May 18, 1949) was an American writer and historian. He was a freelance author who helped to popularize the latest scholarship about American history and his three-volume history of New England is well regarded by scholars.

Also known as Historian

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

James Truslow Adams
- Live
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

James Truslow Adams
- Good
- Bad
- Rest

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

James Truslow Adams
- Real
- Attitude
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

James Truslow Adams
- Freedom
- Worry
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

James Truslow Adams
- Life
- Mind
- Attitude
It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.

James Truslow Adams
- Men
- May
- True
Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

James Truslow Adams
- Age
- Value
- Discipline