Lectures Quotes

“Swami Vivekananda LECTURES ON THE BHAGAVAD GITA”

— Swami Vivekananda

The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation.

— James Lileks

“Reality is a professor, all its lectures are truth.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Time is the only thing you can't buy.

— Nicole Lapin

It's useless to lecture a human.

— Rick Riordan

If great lecture is theatre, the future of learning is games.

— Anant Agarwal

We don't want to go to a movie and sit in a lecture.

— Jeremy Renner

Wounds make better lessons than lectures.

— Brian Herbert

My lectures were highly esteemed, but I am of opinion my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it.

— Astley Cooper

I do sometimes lecture people about what they're eating, but that's only if they ask me.

— Woody Harrelson

What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

— Bill Ayers

I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

— John McCain

Let children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours!

— Charlotte Mason

Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.

— Hermann Minkowski

You cannot lecture another people about what you think is right or wrong based on your value system unless you're willing to…

— Adel al-Jubeir

More academics should blog, post videos, post audio, post lectures, offer articles and more. You'll enjoy it: I've had threats and blackmail,…

— Ben Goldacre

Instructions for Adam Look after no one except yourself. Go to university and make lots of friends and get drunk. Forget your…

— Jenny Downham

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result,…

— Philip Emeagwali

If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and…

— Hippocrates

When I'm makin' lectures to these universities, I tell 'em I like that little building because when I run short a audience,…

— Howard Finster

We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic…

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the…

— Sam Waterston

The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand,…

— Susan Cain

I notice that, in the lecture … which Prof. Lowry gave recently, in Paris … he brought forward certain freak formulae for…

— Henry Edward Armstrong

When I was just writing books and giving lectures, if people disagreed, they just didn't buy your book or attend your lectures.…

— Marianne Williamson

Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can. This does not mean aping extroverts; ideas…

— Susan Cain

How sweet is that? I know I'm no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I…

— Ally Carter

Sylvia had given him a scalding lecture, the gist of it being that whatever a woman enjoyed wearing was feminine and anything…

— Anne Bishop

As I read Mann in German for the first time, the full achievement - both literary and philosophical - of Death in…

— Philip Kitcher

Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human.…

— Anonymous

In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In marriage we have a duty to God, our spuses, the world, and future generations. But we are sinners. A husband and…

— Mark Driscoll

“[Benjamin Peirce's] lectures were not easy to follow. They were never carefully prepared. The work with which he rapidly covered the blackboard…

— William Elwood Byerly

I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it…

— Thomas Jefferson

We were told in one lecture that it was possible to immunize against diphtheria and tetanus by the use of chemically treated…

— Jonas Salk

“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when…

— Freeman Dyson

A Chinese paleontologist lectures around the world saying that recent fossil finds in his country are inconsistent with the Darwinian theory of…

— Phillip E. Johnson