Heard Quote by Aristotle

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do…

— Samuel Johnson

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no…

— V. S. Naipaul

What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.

— Ramakrishna

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.

— Scott Thompson

Take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,for I have had a little experience in that business,that there is a desire…

— Henry David Thoreau

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

— Albert Camus

My lectures were highly esteemed, but my operations less thought of, so that I am of opinion that my operations rather kept down my…

— Astley Cooper

I have very purposely never signed up with commercial lecture agencies as most, I think, prominent historical authors do because, to me, that's a…

— David Garrow

lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or…

— Stephen Fry

When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands…

— Marilynne Robinson

[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite…

— Raymond Cattell

In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished…

— Natalie Goldberg