Professors Quotes
510 quotes by 396 authors
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he…
— Mel Brooks
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As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit…
— Julie Burchill
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God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made…
— Nicolas Cage
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You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you…
— Nicolas Cage
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Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from…
— Kirk Cameron
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I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.
— Tony Campolo
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of…
— Albert Camus
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But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and…
— Donald Cargill
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong…
— Coco Chanel
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
— Noam Chomsky
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
— Noam Chomsky
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When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching,…
— Amy Chua
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Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect…
— John Henrik Clarke
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I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
— Stephen Ambrose
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated…
— Maya Angelou
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A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both. As in a…
— Louis Agassiz
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In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of the radio emission from the…
— Martin Ryle
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