Academics being no less nomadic than Congregational…

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

— Heraclitus

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

— Randall Jarrell

A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge. .…

— Hugh Nibley

“Bulgarian professor named John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, who were building a machine that was intended to automate the solution…

— Neal Stephenson

“Mr S. got angry. ‘Yes, I do have a son. He’s a good-for-nothing. A dead loss.’ I couldn’t ask which prison he was in,…

— George Mikes

“The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he…

— Mitch Albom

...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says stupid things,…

— Paul Krugman

I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were…

— Margaret Geller

I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor…

— B. F. Skinner

If nothing else came out of all of this debacle over Obamacare, one thing that should is a class-action lawsuit against the University of…

— Louie Gohmert

You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.

— Ernest Borgnine

Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that…

— Michael Arrington

“There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

If the professor doesn't show up to class in the first 15 minutes, you get to leave. Somebody make that a law, please.

— Anonymous

“Every professor worth his PhD should have a fireplace in his study.”

— Nora Roberts