Professors Quotes · Page 3

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

— Alan Perlis

The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.

— Henri Lebesgue

I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag…

— Kathy Reichs

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

— Albert Einstein

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.

— Derek Magyar

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

— Randall Jarrell

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

My parents are professors. My sister is a Ph.D. student. My other sister has a business.

— Wunmi Mosaku

I have always been very entrepreneurial minded. Oftentimes, while I was sitting in class listening to my professor ramble on, I would…

— Shay Carl

Moving from unbelief, to Evangelicalism, and finally home to the Catholic Church, Professor Holly Ordway reveals how a gifted mind, longing for…

— Francis J. Beckwith

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the…

— Isaac Newton

I'm not a stereotypical professor type. I don't smoke a pipe and wear a tweedy jacket. I'm more like a student who…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent,…

— Susan B. Anthony

Someone's always calling for my resignation. It's nothing new. It's something that's been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last…

— Alan Chambers

When I went to the Studio Museum in Harlem, there was a type of freedom that existed where I didn't have to…

— Kehinde Wiley

The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to…

— Alfred Nobel

As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple…

— Jeffrey Kluger

William," the professor said, softly, "what now is your weapon?"…"Truth," he whispered, his voice rasping. He cleared his throat. "Truth is my…

— Bryan Davis

Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures…

— Thomas Hardy

A prejudice may be an unreasoned judgment, he [Hibben] pointed out, but an unreasoned judgment is not necessarily an illogical judgment. ...…

— Richard M. Weaver

It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like…

— William Faulkner

Lord Maccon, being Lord Maccon and good at such things, then changed, right there in the Thames, from dog-paddling wolf to large…

— Gail Carriger

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The…

— David Horowitz

It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That…

— Henry Rosovsky

Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.

— Bill Dedman

Individuals whose asylum claims have been accepted have gone on to become professors, soldiers in our military, artists, and more.

— Pramila Jayapal

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.

— Vanna Bonta

We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern - the lectern.

— Sarah Palin

Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.

— Maya Angelou

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to…

— Matt Damon

It turns out one of my dad's best friends was Carl Sagan when I was little. They were both Harvard professors.

— David Grinspoon

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university,

— Jose Manuel Barroso

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

— Umberto Eco

[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.

— Daniel Finkelstein

For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to…

— Ian Mcewan

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is…

— Noam Chomsky

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my…

— Alan Dershowitz

When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

— Clarence Day

I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976.

— Robert Huber

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

— Tony Campolo