Lecture Quotes

191 quotes by 175 authors

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest.… — Rowan Atkinson
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. — Bill Ayers
I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture… — Lionel Blue
Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture. — Michael Caine
The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality… — Alexis Carrel
Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war-which is international sports and I… — James McKeen Cattell
Look, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther. — Rowan Atkinson
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. — Samuel Johnson
Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means… — James Clerk Maxwell
The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a… — Herbert Croly
When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture. — Denis Waitley
The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof. — Louisa May Alcott
Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture. — Hal Boyle
I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture. — Lisa Whelchel
An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development… — Stephen Smale
The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute… — Jerry A. Coyne
The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was Emrys… — Philip Jones Griffiths
At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be able to solve… — Robert Cialdini
Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery,… — Jane Smiley

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