Quotes by Lowell, James Russell

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character >>

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more bea >>

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to b >>

Quotations about Knowledge

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good >>

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in >>

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know >>

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell