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Last updated on December 19, 2024.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell was an American educator and legal scholar. He was President of Harvard University from 1909 to 1933.

December 13, 1856 - January 6, 1943

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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."

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

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

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

I must follow them. I am their leader.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

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

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

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Abbott Lawrence Lowell

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