...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds. — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I know that I will go to my grave as Professor Sprout, whatever else I’ve done. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.' — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter. — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!'… — Rachael Harris Copy Share Image
What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In March several of the Mandrakes threw a loud and raucous party in greenhouse three. This made Professor Sprout very happy. “The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh — James Joyce Copy Share Image
As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Professors have a lot of power.” I almost smiled. “Even medieval history professors?” “Especially medieval history professors,” he assured me. “Knights on… — Nina Lane Copy Share Image
Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk? That way, when… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
The demagogue is usually sly,a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Plotting isn't like sex, because you can go back and adjust it afterwards. Whether you plan your story beforehand or not, if… — Colin Greenland Copy Share Image
Professor Irwin Corey had some of the best timing in the world, and that is something you can't steal. He talked nonsense,… — Tommy Smothers Copy Share Image
I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else.… — John Green Copy Share Image
A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high… — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Quietly Sophronia added, "And the soot on my dress, sir?" "I didn't see anything." Professor Braithwope smiled down at her, showing a… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
The difference between you, if you consider yourself not enlightened, and an enlightened master is not that the enlightened master has more… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist. — Ben Barnes Copy Share Image
Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film. — Derek Magyar Copy Share Image
The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students. — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image