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Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science. -- Thomas Carlyle
Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems. -- Stephen Leacock
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties. -- Stephen Fry
Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture. -- Hal Boyle
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples. -- Wilbert J. McKeachie
When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece. -- Clarence Day
Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked. -- Michael Gruber
Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest. -- Erich Segal
Misquotation is quotology's swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It's a mess we must wade into. -- Willis Regier
Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock. -- Charles Caleb Colton
persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Scienceâ?¦ Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy -- Thomas Carlyle
Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future. -- Thomas Carlyle
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. -- Maya Angelou
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality. -- James Joyce
Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it. -- Richard M. Nixon
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. -- Albert Camus
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. -- Barack Obama
Professors and students claim to be on a quest for truth while denying that it exists or that anyone could identify it if it did. Such is the nihilistic atmosphere in major universities around the world. -- Dave Hunt
Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind. -- Agnes Smedley
Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education -- Yvor Winters
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. -- Camille Paglia
Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously. -- Allan Bloom
[My father] was also a lawyer in his bank and specialized in tax law. He would have to do the tax returns for all the Harvard profs because they were buffaloed by that kind of reasoning. Professors in the economics department, even they knew nothing about it. -- Paul Laffoley
My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong. -- Michelle Obama
Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America. -- Phyllis Schlafly
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. -- Sinclair Lewis
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors. -- Simone Veil
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors. -- Chinua Achebe
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. -- Evan Esar
Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors on American faculties. -- David Horowitz
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. -- Thomas Carlyle
I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography. -- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery. -- Joe Haldeman
Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics, who said it wasn't science that compelled him to accept a materialistic explanation of the universe. It was an a priori materialism. -- John Lennox
Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind....He arrived in our lives as an alien but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit -- Barack Obama
The rock is gonna fall on us," he stood and told the class The professor put his chalk down and peered out through his glasses But he went on and said; "I've seen it, high up on the hill If it doesn't fall this year then very soon it will! -- Harry Chapin
When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one. -- Benjamin Franklin
A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said with a funny wrinkle in his eyes: I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I slowly discovered that my interruptions were my work. -- Henri Nouwen
I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the world you want to go and in any time period to boot, and the lessons you learn from a good book can buoy your own convictions and even change your life. -- Dorothea Benton Frank
Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year. -- Derek Bok
I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors. -- Noam Chomsky
At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing. -- Yara Shahidi
Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses. -- Thomas Sowell
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness. -- Richard Mentor Johnson
Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors. -- Philip Warren Anderson
I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make. -- Shimon Peres
A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals. -- Michael Pollan
Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions. -- Derek Bok
Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction. -- Mayim Bialik
In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools. -- Gerry Schwartz
We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine. -- Daniel Kahneman
Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception. -- George Washington
I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies. -- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Bio Life Technical's strategy of providing technical due diligence by expert professors from core disciplines and world class experts working with interdisciplinary institutes, such as Imperial College's Institute of Biomedical Engineering, will enable a more thorough scientific evaluation of the technology. -- Chris Toumazou
Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile. -- Derek Bok
If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on. -- Sebastian Thrun
I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion. -- Thomas Friedman
Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein of professors, it was just the best experience of my life. Adrien was the most influential mentor in my acting career thus far, and even after the movie he continues to mentor me. -- Sami Gayle
We are not shooting enough professors. -- Vladimir Lenin
Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology. -- JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
Some are professors and others are possessors. -- Lawrence Kennedy
Some are professors and others are possessors." -- Lawrence Kennedy
Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring. -- Mason Cooley
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. -- Emile M. Cioran
I will not descend among professors and capitalists. -- Walt Whitman
There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers -- Henry David Thoreau
I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom. -- Alan Dershowitz
If there weren't so many professors, medicine would be much easier. -- August Bier
Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors. -- Thomas Sowell
Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time. -- Franz Grillparzer
Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught. -- Derek Bok
Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter. -- Jules de Goncourt
Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers. -- Albert Einstein
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost. -- Vladimir Lenin
Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. -- Isaac Newton
There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors -- Vanna Bonta
I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors. -- Jack Steinberger
There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors. -- Vanna Bonta
Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered. -- Gertrude Stein
Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ! -- Charles Spurgeon
My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors. -- Rand Paul
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors. -- James Broughton
Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art. -- Otto von Bismarck
...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds. -- Frank Knight
The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors. -- Tristan Tzara
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born. -- Carl Sandburg
Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear. -- Henry Edward Armstrong
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. -- Maya Lin
We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors. -- John Archibald Wheeler
You professors, what do you teach your students? Do you instill in them the spirit of possession? -- Sunday Adelaja
Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe. -- Pankaj Mishra
Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire. -- Morris Kline
Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living. -- Ludwig von Mises
In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues. -- Warren Farrell
The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that. -- Soren Kierkegaard
What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition. -- Sena Jeter Naslund
Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better. -- Clayton M. Christensen
All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programs, or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better. -- Clayton Christensen
Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it. -- Matthew Henry
The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep. -- Suzanne Fields
At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing. -- Yara Shahidi
In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.' -- Randall Kennedy
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. -- Thomas Carlyle
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors. -- Arthur W. Pink
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. -- Anna Quindlen
Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town -- Tom Waits
My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university, -- Jose Manuel Barroso
My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. -- Camille Paglia
I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean. -- Walt Disney
Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah. -- Bill Dedman
I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith. -- William Shakespeare
There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda. -- Pat Robertson
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
[Asked about a book in which 100 Nazi professors charged him with scientific error.] Were I wrong, one professor would have been quite enough. -- Albert Einstein

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