Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Abbott Lawrence Lowell

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Last updated on December 14, 2024.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell

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
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."
The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.
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
All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.
There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.
I must follow them. I am their leader.
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.
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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