Madness Quote by Michael Gruber

“There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.

— Mary Beard

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors…

— Josh Radnor

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…

— Ken Robinson

“Academia is an odd place. Stately buildings and ivy, wrought iron fences, and libraries fragrant with the smell of old books. Young people scurry…

— John Donohue

Great teachers are usually a little crazy.

— Andy Rooney

I'm not a stereotypical professor type. I don't smoke a pipe and wear a tweedy jacket. I'm more like a student who stayed at…

— Patrick Rothfuss

...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.

— Gertrude Stein

Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students.

— Charlie Sykes

“how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They’re people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.”

— Daniel Keyes

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

— P. J. O'Rourke