Lectures Quotes · Page 4

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

— Hal Boyle

A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.

— Billy Graham

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vitellius would've given Percy an hour-long lecture on the subject, probably with a PowerPoint presentation.

— Rick Riordan

Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story.

— Jacob Gates

Lectures often confuse our kids, but the example we set is crystal clear.

— Zig Ziglar

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

— Ken Livingstone

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

— Michael Faraday

I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They…

— Mark Twain

The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise…

— Adolf Hitler

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they…

— Marcel Achard

An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the…

— Stephen Smale

Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its…

— 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Blount

Even though I had a good income from my lectures, no one would give me a loan. The insanity almost drove me…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I am opposed to textbooks... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter…

— Emil Artin

I know you so well, dragon king, you only get that particular look on your face when you're burning to give me…

— Christine Feehan

The more you lecture those running the companies on how they need to give more breaks to women or other minority groups…

— Megyn Kelly

Welcome to my world! I've been through it all, and I often pinch myself to believe my luck. I design jewlery, create…

— Joan Rivers

How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high…

— Russell Baker

I stand up, sure of one thing and one thing only. That my father will come and get me. He won't give…

— Melina Marchetta

I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of…

— Luanne Rice

I thought in my Nobel Lecture I pointed that I was delighted that the Swedish Academy of Science did not quote anything…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

Definition of lecture: An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through…

— RuPaul

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my…

— Magdi Yacoub

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

— Albert Camus

Dude did you come here to lecture or to fight? BRING IT ON." -Slam Dunk

— Takehiko Inoue

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

— Soren Kierkegaard

You rarely get a convincing lecture on playing to your strength from a bald guy with a ponytail.

— Dana Gould

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

— Witold Gombrowicz

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

— Aristotle

I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

— Bob Woodward

I should like to make myself free to all who care to attend my lectures.

— Howard Pyle

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

— William James

Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

— Gary Zukav

Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.

— Theodore Tilton

It's legendary how architectural lectures can be incredibly boring.

— Bjarke Ingels

Live events and lectures in front of large audiences. It is the best. I like it more than eating dinner.

— David Wolfe

Is there a cookie at the end of this lecture? ... I got a cookie after all ... Dear god, the cookie was poisoned.

— Ilona Andrews

What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.

— Ramakrishna