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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
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 logicaland 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 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
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
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
It occurred to me that professors must get so they unconsciously act the way people think professors ought to act;
— Jack Finney
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors
— Arthur W. Pink
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 lecturefrom 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
(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
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
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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
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
At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
— Yara Shahidi
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 agreedto 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
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
You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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
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
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
