Abbott Lawrence Lowell quote: "Universities are full of Knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in, the seniors take none away, and the knowledge there accumulates"

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ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL

You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may ha...
ABBOTT L. LOWELL

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
ABBOTT L. LOWELL

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth ...
ABBOTT L. LOWELL

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more for...
ABBOTT L. LOWELL

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and ...
ABBOTT L. LOWELL

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as ...
A. LAWRENCE LOWELL

Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and ...
EDWIN ABBOTT ABBOTT

Alas, how strong a family likeness runs through blind and persecuting humanity in all Dimensions! Po...
EDWIN ABBOTT ABBOTT

It's not failure, but low aim is crime.
LOWELL

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
DIANE ABBOTT

America's first Olympics may have been its worst, or at least its most bizarre.
KAREN ABBOTT

I had spent five years not earning a penny, getting rejected. Thank God I had a husband who was supp...
KAREN ABBOTT

In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a ne...
KAREN ABBOTT

I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-centur...
KAREN ABBOTT

I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. Y...
KAREN ABBOTT

In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but...
KAREN ABBOTT

Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It pr...
KAREN ABBOTT

I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16 year...
KAREN ABBOTT

The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the ...
KAREN ABBOTT

Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish im...
KAREN ABBOTT

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to man...
KAREN ABBOTT

As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actual...
KAREN ABBOTT

By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives...
KAREN ABBOTT

In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as...
KAREN ABBOTT

At least in cities where the Confederate Army established a base of operations, young women were ove...
KAREN ABBOTT

All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who...
TONY ABBOTT

I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of...
MEGAN ABBOTT

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark c...
DIANE ABBOTT

If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.
TONY ABBOTT

War is the science of destruction.
JOHN ABBOTT

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or...
BERENICE ABBOTT

The foundation has been instrumental in bringing us to this point, through their leadership and wise...
ABBOTT ZODROW

It will be the hub of theological learning.
ABBOTT ZODROW

This is a wonderful day for us.
ABBOTT ZODROW

This is a new step in the life of Mount Angel Abbey and the seminary. It gives us a real sense of ho...
ABBOTT ZODROW

The word ‘monster’ [monstrum] derives from ‘demonstrare,’ meaning to show or to demonstrate....
STEVE ABBOTT

What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fi...
BERENICE ABBOTT

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be i...
BERENICE ABBOTT

Photography helps people to see.
BERENICE ABBOTT

I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the...
BERENICE ABBOTT

Patience is passion tamed.
LYMAN ABBOTT

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
LYMAN ABBOTT

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answ...
JOHN ABBOTT

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- ...
LYMAN ABBOTT

The highest qualities of character must be earned.
LYMAN ABBOTT

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
JOHN ABBOTT

I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.
JIM ABBOTT

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone e...
TONY ABBOTT

I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are...
TONY ABBOTT

I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very fir...
GRACE ABBOTT

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of childr...
GRACE ABBOTT

For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the...
TONY ABBOTT

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
BERENICE ABBOTT

Americans get it. They're ready for some opportunities to have greener communities, to have clea...
GREG ABBOTT

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
TONY ABBOTT

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute...
BERENICE ABBOTT

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpec...
BERENICE ABBOTT

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to b...
BERENICE ABBOTT

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teac...
BERENICE ABBOTT

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation; the image is...
BERENICE ABBOTT

What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with t...
BERENICE ABBOTT

Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a danc...
BERENICE ABBOTT

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of...
DIANE ABBOTT

I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If p...
TONY ABBOTT

Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am....
TONY ABBOTT

I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, ...
JEFF ABBOTT

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situat...
TONY ABBOTT

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing...
DIANE ABBOTT

Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.
BUD ABBOTT

You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?
BUD ABBOTT

Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing th...
BUD ABBOTT

But for twenty years as a professional team, Lou and I were closer than man and wife.
BUD ABBOTT

That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of...
BUD ABBOTT

They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!
BUD ABBOTT

It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch ...
BUD ABBOTT

Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.
BUD ABBOTT

They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately...
BUD ABBOTT

Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.
BUD ABBOTT

If I have to, I will use one challenge after another to dismantle governmental operations that I con...
GREG ABBOTT

For the present time, there are probably only a few areas in which one might be able to move forward...
GEORGE ABBOTT

[B.C. Health Minister George Abbott praised the initiative.] The province commends the Lois Fish Pal...
GEORGE ABBOTT

We're particularly concerned with the lack of disclosure in the '50s, '60s and '70s around the poten...
GEORGE ABBOTT

I think we're saying Big Tobacco is going to be held to account for their products,
GEORGE ABBOTT

This is a great day for B.C. and, in particular, a great day for health care, ... We are saying big ...
GEORGE ABBOTT

[The unanimous decision upholds legislation passed eight years ago by lawmakers in British Columbia ...
GEORGE ABBOTT

This kind of technique will enable medical centers like ours to to bring advances in medical techniq...
GEORGE ABBOTT

They have been penalized for both of those in the month of July, as they were in the month of June a...
GEORGE ABBOTT

Obviously if you're among the three per cent that didn't get it within 12 months you're going to be ...
GEORGE ABBOTT

The number of youth addictions treatment beds will increase by approximately 75 per cent and allows ...
GEORGE ABBOTT

The PeopleSoft drama is just that: drama and chatter. Investors need to adjust their antennas and fo...
GARY ABBOTT

There's enough maturity in the offerings from Salesforce.com now that it will open up a market oppor...
GARY ABBOTT

This is still one of the best software companies out there.
GARY ABBOTT

As the database goes, so goes Oracle.
GARY ABBOTT

While the quarter's financials are important, the stock performance keys off the PeopleSoft decision...
GARY ABBOTT

At age nine I began serving long stints in juvenile detention quarters. At age twelve I was sent to ...
JACK ABBOTT

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives...
JACK ABBOTT

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform...
JACK ABBOTT

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
JACK ABBOTT

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
JACK ABBOTT

I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine...
JACK ABBOTT

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
JACK ABBOTT

I am pleased this judge concluded that Merck made a wrong move by trying to run from justice in a Te...
GREG ABBOTT

For example, if a car rental company charges $100 a day for a mid-sized rental car to a family in ne...
GREG ABBOTT

Price-gouging consumers for essential goods and services by uncaring businesses during this major st...
GREG ABBOTT

We saw a tremendous outpouring of goodwill in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, but we also know t...
GREG ABBOTT

Texas functions best when public officials recognize that government does not belong to them but to ...
GREG ABBOTT

I am personally proud to fight for the cause of open government in the state of Texas,
GREG ABBOTT

The vast majority of Texas businesses faithfully follow the law but consumers should also be aware t...
GREG ABBOTT

The purpose (of the meetings) is to re-establish an environment dedicated to caring for the people y...
GREG ABBOTT

misrepresented its own studies and the concerns of physicians suggesting the drug may increase the r...
GREG ABBOTT

I thank the McAllen Police Department for assisting us in bringing this man to justice,
GREG ABBOTT

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agenc...
GRACE ABBOTT

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimu...
GRACE ABBOTT

Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.
GRACE ABBOTT

Inventory is definitely moving up there, but we're still in the middle of a seller's market. Homes a...
JAMES ABBOTT

I love going fast and I also love the jumps.
JAMES ABBOTT

There are six people in the race. There are jumps, turns and rollers and some huge jumps.
JAMES ABBOTT

I'm very excited. I'm looking forward to doing all the different events and competing against other ...
JAMES ABBOTT

We're well away from that.
JAMES ABBOTT

I like Whistler's reference to music, the titles of his works and his conventional use of color.
JAMES ABBOTT

We just got so conditioned over the last few years to getting multiple offers so quickly that we for...
JAMES ABBOTT

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.
JACK ABBOTT

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do...
JACK ABBOTT

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.
JACK ABBOTT

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the an...
JOHN ABBOTT

On behalf of the board of education, I offer congratulations for this wonderful recognition, ... We ...
JOHN ABBOTT

At this point, the compute grid is well understood. But much less time has been devoted to getting d...
JOHN ABBOTT

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture
JOHN ABBOTT

How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the ans...
JOHN ABBOTT

[And now that he's graduated to hardcover and 11-city book tour status, he's found there's a real ad...
JEFF ABBOTT

I had started writing the fourth Whit Mosley book, ... I was 40 pages into it, and then Dutton asked...
JEFF ABBOTT

He is singularly unequipped to beat these people.
JEFF ABBOTT

We do something like this every year. Then this catastrophe hit, and it seemed like the obvious choi...
JEFF ABBOTT

[It's a model that Alfred Hitchcock drew on for many of his movies.] If there was a film that inspir...
JEFF ABBOTT

You can't be a professor and talk out of a textbook to teach locomotive operations. You can't create...
JEFF ABBOTT

Since the first quarter, the earnings surprises have been getting smaller and we expect that to cont...
JOSEPH ABBOTT

Next week will be extremely heavy for earnings news ,
JOSEPH ABBOTT

There's a lot of confusion in the marketplace. People are pretty fearful.
JOSEPH ABBOTT

Investors should remember that if we do see companies start hitting estimates and not beating them, ...
JOSEPH ABBOTT

For the third quarter, analysts are bringing their estimates down again, but not by as much as norma...
JOSEPH ABBOTT

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.
DIANE ABBOTT

You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
DIANE ABBOTT

This is a historically significant victory for women worldwide but for Jamaicans in particular. Port...
DIANE ABBOTT

She has proven herself to be a likable and strong-willed woman. I am sure she will prove herself ver...
DIANE ABBOTT

In my 26 years I haven't run into a baby who was rolled over on in bed, or who suffocated next to mo...
DIANE ABBOTT

because that was the only way they felt they could survive.
DIANE ABBOTT

Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s...
DIANE ABBOTT

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched ...
DIANE ABBOTT

My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the...
DIANE ABBOTT

Many young people carrying real or imitation firearms do so in a mistaken attempt to either boost th...
DIANE ABBOTT

We want to make this a model for other communities in the future.
DEBORAH ABBOTT

The heritage of the state is very agricultural. Re-energizing agriculture is the key to Indiana's ec...
DEBORAH ABBOTT

The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel.
DEBORAH ABBOTT

The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel,
DEBORAH ABBOTT

I think too many people found that by waiting, maybe the prime locations they wanted were harder to ...
DONNA ABBOTT

We bought the property as much for the tree as for the Victorian house.
DONNA ABBOTT

We've got quite a few ideas. We still have a Land Rover in Australia.
DONNA ABBOTT

They didn't know if he was going to live.
DONNA ABBOTT

It's not like we're alone out there. There are really a lot of people doing this.
DONNA ABBOTT

We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of...
DONNA ABBOTT

It's like a house. Eventually things start wearing out. There's always something you can be doing.
DONNA ABBOTT

We thought it would be a really good chance for us to get to know her and her to get to know us.
DONNA ABBOTT

Dave had a financial plan for 10 years before it all came together.
DONNA ABBOTT

I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great li...
TONY ABBOTT

What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Abori...
TONY ABBOTT

They treat us just like their other friends. They're good to us. And we're good to them.
MARK ABBOTT

I don't want any money.
MARK ABBOTT

They're very genuine, very humble. They really appreciate it.
MARK ABBOTT

We benefit as a growing sport being in a growing region.
MARK ABBOTT

What he does come July 1 is wide open at this point.
NEIL ABBOTT

Sergei is a young player with a future ahead of him and this is a fresh start. Edmonton is a good ho...
NEIL ABBOTT

The 2003-2004 Bruins team has pretty much been dismantled, and he understood that. Leaving Boston is...
NEIL ABBOTT

At this point I really don't know. I haven't gotten any indication that they don't (want to sign him...
NEIL ABBOTT

No doors are closed. It's very early in the process, obviously but I'll just say in a general sense ...
NEIL ABBOTT

I talked to Mike (O'Connell) briefly after New Year's, just touching base, but (had) no discussion o...
NEIL ABBOTT

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be...
BERENICE ABBOTT

I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about th...
BERENICE ABBOTT

Abbott: Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on thir...
BUD ABBOTT

I can do the tricks and I can skate. I have great skating skills and artistry and well-choreographed...
JEREMY ABBOTT

All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because ...
LYMAN ABBOTT

I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like ev...
HAILEY ABBOTT

There are no factions in the Liberal Party.
TONY ABBOTT

I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
TONY ABBOTT

I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly supp...
TONY ABBOTT

I have great artistry, I can spin well, I have good footwork, and I can jump. I can do the quad jump...
JEREMY ABBOTT

He's stinking strong. He's starting to put a better bat on the ball and starting to be more selectiv...
TODD ABBOTT

We figure if we are going to have a holiday tournament, we need to make it a large one. With our fac...
RICK ABBOTT

There is a lot of rich history and tradition associated with the tournament. We've had some great co...
RICK ABBOTT

The kids get excited about wrestling in their own gym.
RICK ABBOTT

It went awesome. We had a very good turnout.
RICK ABBOTT

We have been able to add some Ohio Capital Conference teams. I think the word has got out about our ...
RICK ABBOTT

If you start to practice medicine you are doing so with incomplete information and I think there are...
RICK ABBOTT

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.
DIANE ABBOTT

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia a...
DIANE ABBOTT

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; an...
JOHN ABBOTT

I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the ...
JEFF ABBOTT

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather t...
BERENICE ABBOTT

Universities are full of Knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in, the seniors take none away, and the knowledge there accumulates

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