Professors Quotes

“Some are professors and others are possessors.”

— Lawrence Kennedy

I respect teachers and professors.

— Erin O'Toole

“Do not descend amongst professors or capitalists.”

— Walt Whitman

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

“We must all be professors of the jungle.”

— Phil Knight

I can't give a Professor love!

— Anonymous

I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays

— Umberto Eco

Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough.

— Albert Einstein

Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

— Stephen Leacock

“Life is a thorough university; pain and hardship are its distinguished professors.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The world has too few modest fry cooks and far too many self-important professors.”

— Dean Koontz

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

— Frank Knight

Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

— Isaac Newton

Professor,” Harry gasped. “Your bird — I couldn’t do anything — he just caught fire —

— Anonymous

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

— Noam Chomsky

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything.…

— Stephen King

Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate…

— Terry Pratchett

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know…

— Anonymous

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

— Anna Quindlen

The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it's fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park…

— Stephen Breyer

In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They…

— Donald A. Norman

Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning…

— Anonymous

America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to…

— Glenn Beck

And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,…

— Doris Lessing

To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and…

— William Osler

The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of…

— Charlie Munger

My father was a university professor and his thing was tenure. Any time I hear a university professor say tenure, I hear…

— Robert Kiyosaki

Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a…

— Chris Hedges

Things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take…

— Warwick Davis

I went around to the little schoolhouses, talking like a professor, explaining our platform. We were lucky if the collection gave us…

— Tommy Douglas

Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by…

— Herman Melville

I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them…

— Winston Churchill

A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook,…

— Virginia Woolf

You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is,…

— Charles Kingsley

I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters…

— Galileo Galilei

A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high…

— Brian Hodge

Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been…

— Karl Barth

Professor Irwin Corey had some of the best timing in the world, and that is something you can't steal. He talked nonsense,…

— Tommy Smothers