Abbott Lawrence Lowell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#Graduation #Senior #Education
You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#Jealousy #Credit #Accepting
I must follow them. I am their leader.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#Leadership #Leader
A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#Leadership #Men #Paris
You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#Progress #May #Juniors
Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#Style #Fame #Glamour
The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#Education #Men #Information
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#Over You #May #Patterns
Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#Happiness #Way #Pleasure
All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#Men #Progress #Neighbor
There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#Men #Sides #Harvard

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