Lecture Quotes

• I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Bad
  • Shy
  • Speaker

• When 'Iron Man' came out, I said, 'Oh - they are trying to have some fun.' It was a relief because every superhero movie had become so damn serious. Some people love that, but for me, it's a weird thing to watch. A man with a cape can have fun, but I won't listen to a lecture from him.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Fun
  • Serious

• I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Successful
  • Failed
  • Lecture

• I am opposed to textbooks ... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter after chapter of a given book. The liveliness of the lecture, which is meant to give an impetus to the sudents, would suffer tremendously.

  

  Emil Artin
  • Give
  • Opposed
  • Impetus

• The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Reason
  • Audience
  • Lecture

• Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.

  

  Angela Davis
  • World
  • Work
  • Country

• The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten.

  

  Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
  • School
  • Teacher
  • Lecture

• I went to a lecture of Arthur Koestler once, I never met him.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Met
  • Lecture

• Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"

  

  Diogenes
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Lecture

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

  

  Scott Thompson
  • Listen
  • Talked
  • Scolded

• A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Man
  • Enjoyment
  • Lecture

• I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called "contempt prior to investigation." I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Work
  • Practice

• But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the former, and in great measure from the latter. ... in short, I should wish to gain my bread from my writings.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Measure
  • Gain
  • Studies

• Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

  

  Robin Williams
  • George W. Bush
  • Not Work
  • Business Ethics

• To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Teacher
  • Lecture
  • Affirm

• Milton Friedman had the grace and good sense to recognize that he wanted to talk to the general public. He wasn't going to just lecture to the people who happened to appear in his classroom in Chicago or on some lecture circuit. He went out to talk to the general public, believing that you had to convince a democratic nation to change its ways, and he succeeded to a considerable extent.

  

  Allan H. Meltzer
  • Change
  • Convince
  • Milton Friedman

• September waited. She long ago learned that if she waited and blinked and behaved like a pupil, eventually someone would lecture her on something.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Someone
  • September
  • Pupil

• Five hours after presenting a ...lecture on cancer before an audience of about 400 in L.A., the windshield was shot out of my car on the road back to San Francisco. The next night the glass window in the tailgate the back window was shot out 300 miles removed from the first shooting...The late Arthur T. Harris, MD, was threatened by two men with assassination if he continued to use Laetrile.

  

  Ernst T. Krebs
  • Audience
  • Cancer
  • Shooting

• Well, maybe it was just that I wasn't going to like anybody because I had to work and I had to explain to my teachers why I wasn't keeping up. I'd fall asleep and things in class and they'd lecture me about the reality of their classroom. I said, 'You want to see my reality?' I opened up my backpack to where you usually keep your pencils. That's where I kept my bills... electric bills, rent... That was my reality.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Work
  • Reality
  • Teachers

• She long ago learned that if she waited and blinked and behaved like a pupil, eventually someone would lecture her on something.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • She
  • Learned
  • Someone

• A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Jewels
  • Lecture
  • Time Sparkle

• If there is a problem somewhere, this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person-only one- will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it. Now...which person are you?

  

  Elias Chacour
  • People
  • Problem
  • Solution

• We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Grind
  • Glass
  • Lecture

• Covert Operations Report At approximately 0900 hours on Saturday, October 14, Operative Morgan was given a stern lecture by Agent Townsend, a tracking device by Agent Cameron, and a very scary look from Operative Goode. (She also got a tip that her bra strap was showing from Operative McHenry.) The Operative then undertook a basic reconnaissance mission inside a potentially hostile location. (But it wasn't as hostile as Operative Baxter was going to be if everything didn't go according to plan.)

  

  Ally Carter
  • Scary
  • Plan
  • Location

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