Lecture Quotes

191 quotes by 175 authors

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either. — Mark Twain
Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of… — Robert B. Laughlin
Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has… — D. H. Lawrence
Five hours after presenting a ...lecture on cancer before an audience of about 400 in L.A., the windshield was shot out of my car on… — Ernst T. Krebs
A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration… — James Dwight Dana
I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only… — Richard P. Feynman
When I was twenty-one, a friend gave me a book called Diet for a New America by John Robbins, which exposed the brutal practices of… — Gwyneth Paltrow
PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as… — Ambrose Bierce
A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he… — Jean de la Bruyere
You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that… — Virginia Woolf
Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But… — Stephen Leacock
I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred. — Elbert Hubbard
My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not… — Mary MacLane
I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible. — Vance Havner
Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they… — Derek Bok
The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and… — Arthur Compton
I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would ever be in… — Dani Shapiro
People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count. — Ben Elton

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