Professors Quotes

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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's… — Abraham Verghese
In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of… — Ben Rattray
When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and he finally diagnosed… — Daniel Tammet
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own. — Charles Caleb Colton
It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the… — D. V. Ager
Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one teacher,… — Bertrand Russell
My mother - both my mother and father had very successful careers. My mother's an English professor and my father is a scientist and physician.… — David Plotz
Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough. — Albert Einstein
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of… — Ken Robinson
Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do,… — Rollo May
Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't… — Robert B. Parker
When I was doing Professor Albert Einstein's bust he had many a jibe at the Nazi professors, one hundred of whom had condemned his theory… — Jacob Epstein
To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student.… — William Osler
Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he certainly would know… — Will Rogers
I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean. — Walt Disney
The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young. — Arno C. Gaebelein
...Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then he does not… — Soren Kierkegaard
How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would… — Friedrich Nietzsche
To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The bowtie hints at… — Warren St. John
There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors. — Vanna Bonta

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