Professors Quotes · Page 7

When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

— Clarence Day

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

— Eric Allin Cornell

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

— Daniel Kahneman

Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University.

— Malcolm X

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my…

— Alan Dershowitz

Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

— Ludwig von Mises

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

— James Broughton

There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.

— H. L. Mencken

My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid…

— Michael Cerveris

I've learned so much from my professors and have been fortunate to have had so many good ones, including Frederick and Steven…

— Mary J. Miller

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.

— John Henry Carver

As a community college professor for over twenty years, I've seen the determination, resilience and dedication of countless students. Regardless of circumstances,…

— Jill Biden

Like all professors, I also do a lot of extra jobs for which I was never trained, such as advising former students…

— Hope Jahren

“Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z…”

— Aldous Huxley

[Asked about a book in which 100 Nazi professors charged him with scientific error.] Were I wrong, one professor would have been…

— Albert Einstein

“If the students see that rules are for everyone... for professors too, not just for poor helpless students who get nothing but…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this…

— Henry David Thoreau

As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the…

— Jim Harrison

At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades…

— Caroline Lawrence

Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent,…

— Susan B. Anthony

I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree…

— Elizabeth Neel

I was in a fascinating meeting where one man had been in China recently. A Chinese professor has found evidence that Christians…

— Dallas Willard

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with…

— Camille Paglia

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the…

— Isaac Newton

Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any…

— G. H. Hardy

And therefore you who think so basely of the gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort…

— William Gurnall

[Eric]Goldman [a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law] says back in the 1990s, courts began to confront the question of…

— Laura Sydell

Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and…

— Arthur Lynch

“And every time I did spectacularly well in my classes, and I'm here to tell you that I did spectacularly well, I…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of…

— John Dewey

When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions…

— Sandi Toksvig

One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals.…

— Pierre Hadot

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

— J. Philippe Rushton

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

— William Safire

Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

— Louise Rosenblatt

Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick")

— Anonymous

Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.

— Alice Dunbar Nelson

I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

— Barry McCaffrey

Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics.

— J. K. Rowling

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

— Zephyr Teachout