The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates. — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism. — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness. — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice. — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Is there a cookie at the end of this lecture? ... I got a cookie after all ... Dear god, the cookie was poisoned. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Live events and lectures in front of large audiences. It is the best. I like it more than eating dinner. — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth… — Joshua Kendall Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
What you want to do is talk about ideas, you write a novel, you have a lecture about those ideas. Satire and… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
In opening your doors to woman, it is mind that will enter the lecture room, it is intelligence that will ask for… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century,… — Martin A. Siegel Copy Share Image
For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
All human beings are moral beings. So, certainly there are alliances. We are in the countries, that are secular states, and we… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
I don't want to give a lecture to this body that's out there. You know, I mean, having had the heart attack,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The late British-born philosopher Alan Watts, in one of his wonderful lectures on eastern philosophy, used this analogy: "If I draw a… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
The attitude of the true scientist towards the real limits of human understanding was unforgettably impressed on me in early youth by… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“We are now ready to tackle Dickens. We are now ready to embrace Dickens. We are now ready to bask in Dickens.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books. — Theodore Tilton Copy Share Image
I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it. — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
I should like to make myself free to all who care to attend my lectures. — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave. — William James Copy Share Image
Dude did you come here to lecture or to fight? BRING IT ON." -Slam Dunk — Takehiko Inoue Copy Share Image
To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside. — Aristotle Copy Share Image