A. Lawrence Lowell Quotes

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Education is the manifestation of perfection present already in man.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Learning is good in and of itself.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

The primary motivation for me is to learn.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

I do think we have collectively begun to conflate the institutions of education for education itself. Education is an individual's pursuit of understanding and has a lot of implications for that person, for the kind of person that they are.

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

If you asked me what the most important thing in my life is, it's learning.

Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.