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