Abbott Lawrence Lowell Quotes
- I must follow them. I am their 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.…
- 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…
- Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
- The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
- Universities are full of Knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in, the seniors take none away, and the knowledge there accumulates