Given Quote by V. S. Naipaul

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.

— Scott Thompson

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

— Aristotle

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

— Samuel Johnson

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do…

— Samuel Johnson

What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.

— Ramakrishna

When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands…

— Marilynne Robinson

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

— John Gould

I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.

— James Patterson

Lectures often confuse our kids, but the example we set is crystal clear.

— Zig Ziglar

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures…

— Stephen Leacock

No one wants a lecture when you're getting a latte. So if you get one without asking, isn't that grounds for some discipline?

— Greg Gutfeld

lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or…

— Stephen Fry