Art Quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

— Ambrose Bierce

A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.

— Peter Porter

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

— Victor Hugo

A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix…

— Charles Horton Cooley

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

— Cato the Elder

Whoever acquires knowledge and does not practice it resembles him who plows his land and leaves it unsown

— Muslih-uddin Sadi

A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.

— Sophocles

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.

— Norbert Wiener

The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

— Proverbs 15:14

A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

— Voltaire

“Ockham snorted. "I am no nominalist. The problem with teaching the Modern Way is that lesser scholars, excited by the novelty, seldom bother to…

— Michael Flynn

The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.

— Confucius