Lectures Quotes

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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 modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips,… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
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
My lectures were highly esteemed, but I am of opinion my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it. — Astley Cooper
I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
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
Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the… — Jonathan Sacks
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
When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say… — Howard Barker
I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds. — Ehud Barak
I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I… — Peter Carey
We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose… — Artur Davis
Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing… — John Ruskin
So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists… — Uri Geller
Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism. — Hari Kunzru
When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in… — Stephen Cole Kleene
Prayer and humility, along with a hatred for sin, produces a â€˜mind to work.â€™ â€˜So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined… — David Wilkerson

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