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“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.”
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Abbott Lawrence Lowell
#Graduation Quotes
#Senior Quotes
#Education Quotes
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“You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.”
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Abbott Lawrence Lowell
#Jealousy Quotes
#Credit Quotes
#Accepting Quotes
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“I must follow them. I am their leader.”
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Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Source : Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1932). “Conflicts of Principle”
#Leadership Quotes
#Leader Quotes
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“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."”
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Abbott Lawrence Lowell
#Leadership Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Paris Quotes
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“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.”
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Abbott Lawrence Lowell
#Progress Quotes
#May Quotes
#Juniors Quotes
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“Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.”
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Abbott Lawrence Lowell
#Style Quotes
#Fame Quotes
#Glamour Quotes
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“The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.”
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Abbott Lawrence Lowell
#Education Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Information Quotes
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“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.”
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Abbott Lawrence Lowell
#Over You Quotes
#May Quotes
#Patterns Quotes
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“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.”
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Abbott Lawrence Lowell
#Happiness Quotes
#Way Quotes
#Pleasure Quotes
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“All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.”
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Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Source : Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1944). “Facts and Visions: Twenty-four Baccalaureate Sermons”
#Men Quotes
#Progress Quotes
#Neighbor Quotes
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“There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.”
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Abbott Lawrence Lowell
#Men Quotes
#Sides Quotes
#Harvard Quotes
