Book Quote by Yvor Winters

There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

— Thomas Carlyle

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

— Anonymous

“I'm not trying to tell you," he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so.…

— J.D. Salinger

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

— Noam Chomsky

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

— George Ade

“Strange as it may seem, not all of the great mathematicians have been professors in colleges or universities. Quite a few were soldiers by…

— Eric Temple Bell

“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

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.

— Vanna Bonta

There are thousands of experts, creators, and practitioners around the world who have valuable knowledge to share but aren't traditional professors.

— Gagan Biyani

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

— Edgar Allan Poe

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