Abbott Lawrence Lowell Quotes

#1. It's very common for people to recommend something to me because they're going on what I've already written, when, what really is the case, is that you want to write about something you haven't written about, in ways that you haven't done before.

Tom Stoppard

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

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#3. 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

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

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#5. Because of its increasing triviality, everyday life has gradually become our central preoccupation

Raoul Vaneigem

#6. The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.

Dakota Goyo

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

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#8. 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

#9. The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

H.L. Mencken

#10. The law of love knows no bounds of space or time.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#12. it is a part of the human experience to feel pain do not be afraid open yourself to it -

Rupi Kaur

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. That is a language for ordering
the slaughter and gutting of hogs, for
counting stacks of cans. Groceries
are all you are good for. Leave
the soul to us. Eat shit.

Margaret Atwood

#16. To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

Bodhidharma

#17. There are no mistakes in life,
only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only
opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of selfmastery.
From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher

Robin S. Sharma

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

Abbott Lawrence Lowell