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
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
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
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
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
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
Very few college professors want high school graduates in their history class who are simply "gung ho" and "rah-rah" with regard to… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
- With respect, Professor McGonagall, I'm not quite sure you understand what I'm trying to do here. - With respect, Mr. Potter,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The company I invested in is probably a leader in that area. They're a company called Second Spectrum, which happens to be… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and… — William Osler Copy Share Image
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I only have a Bachelor's Degree but I've had professors who have instilled this kind of academic rigor in me where I… — Ayshay Copy Share Image
As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Indignant reply to the blatent sex discrimination expressed in a colleague's opposition when Hilbert proposed appointing Emmy Noether as the first woman… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead. — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, a new report says only 7% of scientists believe in God. That is right. And the reason they gave was… — James Traficant Copy Share Image
I believe in research. Each movie at Pixar involves research with college professors or taking trips to learn as much as we… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor. — Madeleine Albright 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
What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Nigeria is the only country where professors rig elections for incompetent politicians, but expel students for examination malpractices.” — Olawale Daniel Copy Share Image
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I chose my classes based on which professors did not take attendance, and then I traded Padres tickets for notes from class.… — Theo Epstein Copy Share Image
I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses — Juhani Pallasmaa Copy Share Image
I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the… — Denis McDonough 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
If you want to be the most popular person in your class, whenever the professor pauses in his lecture, just let out… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors. — Simone Veil Copy Share Image
There are so many reasons, but a big reason is that the literary world is simply too white. When there are more… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image