Professors Quotes

I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.

— Elie Wiesel

“Some are professors and others are possessors.”

— Lawrence Kennedy

If there weren't so many professors, medicine would be much easier.

— August Bier

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

— Alan Dershowitz

I—I didn't think—" "That," said Professor McGonagall, "is obvious.

— Anonymous

I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.

— Judy Tenuta

Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough.

— Albert Einstein

I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'

— William Sloane Coffin

The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.

— Anonymous

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

— Thomas Carlyle

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The world has too few modest fry cooks and far too many self-important professors.”

— Dean Koontz

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

— Frank Knight

As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right…

— Kurt Huber

I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of…

— Tibor Fischer

I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing.…

— Isabel Allende

I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate…

— John Roberts

“It was worth many hardships to see forty German professors try to mount forty recalcitrant mules. My own horseman¬ ship, as already…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that... it wouldn't make any difference that you just came…

— Jelly Roll Morton

My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in…

— Ed Droste

THIRTY–ZERO! TAKE THAT, YOU DIRTY, CHEATING —” “Jordan, if you can’t commentate in an unbiased way — !” “I’m telling it like…

— Anonymous

Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs…

— Ralph Nader

A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook,…

— Virginia Woolf

Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by…

— Deborah Eisenberg

Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen…

— Aldous Huxley

And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,…

— Doris Lessing

To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and…

— William Osler

...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often -…

— George Orwell

I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them…

— Winston Churchill

Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by…

— Herman Melville

You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is,…

— Charles Kingsley

Let’s be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare…

— Charlton Heston

“Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory…

— Kenichi Fukui

If you don't have to pay for everything you're providing, why in the world should you cut the cost of it, when…

— Rush Limbaugh

I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives…

— Juan Williams

“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when…

— Yuri Bezmenov