What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the Trinity. . . . — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I'm afraid," Professor Piper said, "afraid that you're never going to discover what you're truly capable of. That you won't get to… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in… — Curtis White Copy Share Image
... certain people, such as shamans, witch doctors, practitioners of Eastern religions, New Age gurus or professors of the occult on university… — C. Wagner Copy Share Image
What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Why did the people think [Vietnam war] was fundamentally wrong and immoral? The guys who ran the polls, John E. Rielly, a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Right, you've got a crooked sort of cross..." He consulted Unfogging the Future. "That means you're going to have 'trials and suffering'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Miss Granger, you foolish girl, how could you think of tackling a mountain troll on your own? Five points will be taken… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I like the Stooges. You know what movie I saw that I sort of discovered late was Jerry Lewis in 'The Nutty… — Mike Judge Copy Share Image
What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with… — James Cook Copy Share Image
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them. — Najib Razak Copy Share Image
After years of studying French in school, one of my professors said he'd really appreciate it if I didn't take any more… — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
“One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the… — Daniel Amory Copy Share Image
Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
We have it in our heads that women only need to take up a certain amount of space and then we've done… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I am an academic," said Professor Mandalay, "and thus have no finely developed senses that would be comprehensible to anyone who has… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The other thing [my psychology professor] said to me was that I was always very mindful of the person who was away… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn't a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Even being too good at teaching is risky at research universities; the joke is that a 'teacher of the year' award is… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“So limp of brain that for them to conceive an idea is to risk a haemorrhage. So limp of body that their… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
[Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil. “Go on, Professor Grace!” he said,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
![“Why did the people think [Vietnam war] was fundamentally wrong and immoral? The guys who ran the polls, John E. Rielly, a professor at the University of Chicago, a liberal professor, he said what that means is that people thought too many Americans had being killed. Another possibility is they…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3e2/noam-chomsky-42_chicago_why-did-the-people-think-vietnam-war-was_2961383.jpg)
![“Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate…” quote by Richard Armour](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/130/richard-armour-14098_associates_shakespeare-who-never-could-think-up-a-p_2382155.jpg)
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