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The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep. — Suzanne Fields

Some are professors and others are possessors. — Lawrence Kennedy

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue. — H.L. Mencken

Education isn't something your professors make for you. It's something you make for yourself. — Lance Olsen

My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer. — Daniel Goldstein

Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire. — Morris Kline

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university. — Jose Manuel Barroso

[Asked about a book in which 100 Nazi professors charged him with scientific error.] Were I wrong, one professor would have been quite enough. — Albert Einstein

Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring. — Mason Cooley

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time. — Franz Grillparzer

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors. — Chinua Achebe

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors. — James Broughton

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. — Henry David Thoreau

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

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art. — Otto Von Bismarck

If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something. — Brother Ali

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist. — Judy Tenuta

I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.' — William Sloane Coffin

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s. — Joyce Carol Oates

Do not descend amongst professors or capitalists. — Walt Whitman

I am what is called a professor emeritus - from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be. — Stephen Leacock

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

Mothers are the first professors in the school of character. — Hugh B. Brown

We are not shooting enough professors — Vladimir Lenin

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. — Thomas Carlyle

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? — W. H. Auden

Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught. — Derek Bok

Unfortunately, proof of a Jefferson-Hemings liaison was as fanciful as Professor Ellis' war service. — Ann Coulter

You professors, what do you teach your students? Do you instill in them the spirit of possession? — Sunday Adelaja

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Professors stare down from their podiums; that's their insecurity. — Marty Rubin

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture. — Hal Boyle

Leipzig that the university had to pass a rule against throwing stones at professors. — Leonard Mlodinow

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity ... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples. — Wilbert J. McKeachie

When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece. — Clarence Day

Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it. — Matthew Henry

I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith. — William Shakespeare

Schools - play the race card incessantly against their fellow students and their professors, leading to an atmosphere of nervous self-censorship. — Anonymous

It occurred to me that professors must get so they unconsciously act the way people think professors ought to act; — Jack Finney

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors. — Simone Veil

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors — Arthur W. Pink

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

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. — Carolyn G. Heilbrun

You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them. — Najib Razak

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe. — Pankaj Mishra

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. — Sinclair Lewis

Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked. — Michael Gruber

Every professor secretly thinks that what the world needs is a good, solid lecture
from him, of course. — Gregory Benford

What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, 'nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition. — Sena Jeter Naslund

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bankers all wanted to be princes. Professors all wanted to be Martin Luther. — Graham Moore

(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life. — Jerry Lewis

Knowledge is the name professors give to the confusion they create. — Marty Rubin

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom. — Alan Dershowitz

My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions. — Garrett Fort

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. — Anna Quindlen

Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z ... — Aldous Huxley

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born. — Carl Sandburg

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.' — Pete Seeger

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town — Tom Waits

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it. — David Eddings

Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living. — Ludwig Von Mises

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business. — Stephen Ambrose

What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.) — Henri Cartier-Bresson

If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you. — Terry H. Anderson

No amount of grooming from the professors can communicate knowledge. — Anuradha Bhattacharyya

Even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds. — Frank Knight

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

At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing. — Yara Shahidi

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers. — Albert Einstein

Scholars love knowledge.
Philosophers love wisdom.
The most knowledgeable become professors.
The most wise become sages. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors. — Jack Steinberger

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. — Emile M. Cioran

My experience dealing with professors has taught me that educated people have the ability to demean a person with a single glance. — Ge Fei

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors. — John Archibald Wheeler

Of course he had a female following. Was there anything college girls found sexier than being told what to think? — Mira Jacob

Professor McGonagall: Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics. — J.K. Rowling

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that. — Soren Kierkegaard

This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings. — Lisa Kleypas

This country hates professors. It likes Toby Keith - 'I'm gonna put a boot in their ass.' If you don't do that, somehow you can't be strong. — Bill Maher

Political scientists and professors are the new clergy; the clergy of oppression. — A.E. Samaan

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it! — John Barth

"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool." — Calvin Trillin

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.
— Walt Whitman

One faithful witness is worth a thousand mute professors of religion ... Our faith grows by expression ... we must share it - we must witness. — Billy Graham

Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems. — Stephen Leacock

I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president. — Theodore Roosevelt

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. — Maya Lin

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks. — Randall Jarrell

Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead. — Jedediah Bila

University of Chicago is a Baptist school, where atheist professors teach Jewish students about St. Thomas Aquinas. — Martin Gardner

For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack. — Ian McEwan

Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to X. — John C. Baez