Abbott Lawrence Lowell Quotes

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

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#2. 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

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

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#4. I must follow them. I am their leader.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Ants, like human beings, can create civilizations without the use of reason.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell