Professors Quotes · Page 5

There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

— George Santayana

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

— Thomas Carlyle

I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.

— Elie Wiesel

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

— Jürgen Moltmann

I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.

— Felix Frankfurter

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

— Anonymous

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.

— Norbert Wiener

Our Headmaster is taking a short break," said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window.

— Anonymous

The death of deference seems to be general at the moment, so everybody has to earn their reputation and trust all over…

— Duncan Green

In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and…

— Laura Hillenbrand

If you say to a group of women professors, 'Close your eyes and think of a professor,' what they will see is…

— Mary Beard

I don't see kids with Palm Pilots. They are not common on college campuses, except among professors. Gen Xers don't need them.…

— Elliott Abrams

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate…

— Sun Myung Moon

In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in…

— Paul D. Boyer

I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page…

— Claire Danes

Individuals whose asylum claims have been accepted have gone on to become professors, soldiers in our military, artists, and more.

— Pramila Jayapal

The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I…

— John Hodgman

When I studied computer science at Duke University in the first half of the 1980s, I had professors who treated women differently…

— Melinda Gates

Philosophy - reduced, as we have seen, to philosophical discourse - develops from this point on in a different atmosphere and environment…

— Pierre Hadot

A word of advice, though. This won't be the last time you have to deal with something in life that throws you…

— Tammara Webber

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The…

— David Horowitz

It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That…

— Henry Rosovsky

Everything went pitch-black and the next thing I knew, I was being hurled headfirst out of the room!” “And you didn’t see…

— Anonymous

I had all this anxiety about what it meant to be a minority. My professors - the same men who taught me…

— Richard Rodriguez

Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in…

— Barack Obama

I had an ASU student looking for it in my shop last week, and he defined the Bacchants for me as 'those…

— Kevin Hearne

Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that…

— Katherine Paterson

“It should be obvious but I’ve never met anyone that is able to perceive incompetent managers and lack of corporate integrity as…

— Robin Sacredfire

[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of…

— George Orwell

When you love a woman don't be bothered about what others have said about love, because that is going to be an…

— Rajneesh

All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us…

— Thomas Carlyle

The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to…

— Stephen King

The thing that was great about San Jose State was, I got connected with some very good professors.

— Brian Krzanich

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Professors who hold unpopular positions or state inconvenient facts are now considered psychologically toxic.

— Amy Wax

I hate when professors keep you the entire time on the first day of class. Gimme the syllabus and get me out…

— Anonymous

I look forward to teaching the occasional class, 'cause I was a professor. And I had fun doing it.

— Barack Obama

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

— Randy Pausch

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

— John Archibald Wheeler

(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my…

— Jerry Lewis