Professor Quotes

• Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Paradox
  • Thinker
  • Professor

• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Guidance
  • Professor

• When I was an art student, a professor told me, "If you are thinking about where a painting is going to hang in a gallery and what others will say and think of it before you have put the first brush to the canvas, you are missing the point entirely.

  

  Scott Yancey Avett The Avett Brothers
  • Painting
  • Student
  • Gallery

• I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

  

  Karl von Frisch
  • Been
  • Scientific
  • Professor

• A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and mumble explanations of blackboard problems. He was "let out" at the end of two years because students refused to attend his classes. He was given an evasive reason for his dismissal and he left with justifiable bitterness toward the administration. If someone had told him the truth he could have avoided this denouement. Sometimes professors go on for years without any conception of remediable faults which irritate their listeners.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Truth
  • Action
  • Explanation

• Today, if I could get a job, with face tattoos, being a professor, I would do that. I don't know what university would hire me, but that's my passion.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Job
  • Hire
  • Tattoos

• I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Where
  • University
  • Professor

• It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor. In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Reality
  • Him
  • Professor

• Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Like
  • U.S.
  • Professor

• You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are encouraged to enjoy their subject and to pass it on.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Professor

• Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?

  

  Jules Verne
  • Worse
  • Professor
  • Savages

• I want to be an activist professor.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Want
  • Professor
  • Activist

• 'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Want
  • Town
  • Nutty

• Basketball wasn't going particularly well, but in my senior year, I did a play and got a wonderful card from a professor that said, 'I don't know what your plans are after school or if acting is a part of it, but you have something special.' Hearing that from someone who I had so much respect for pointed me in that direction.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • School
  • Respect
  • Special

• I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Poets
  • Professor
  • Libraries

• Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Today
  • Struggle
  • Female

• Those things that are most dear cannot be drowned - the grooves and the second line, the way you feel inside when you hear Professor Longhair. Even when you're sitting down, that's in you.

  

  Allen Toussaint
  • Inside
  • Dear
  • Professor

• The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple man with a burning curiosity. It was through his curiosity that he made many real contributions to medical science.

  

  Denton Cooley
  • Science
  • Inspired
  • Through

• We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern - the lectern.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Professor
  • Commander

• An important event in my scientific life has been my appointment as a Professor at the College de France in 1973.

  

  Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
  • Life
  • Important
  • College

• My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • House
  • Reading
  • Books

• In 1952, I was appointed Professor at the University of Bonn and Director of the Physics Institute, with very good students waiting for a thesis advisor.

  

  Wolfgang Paul
  • Director
  • University Of Bonn
  • Physics Institute

• Were I wrong, one professor would have been quite enough.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Enough
  • Wrong
  • Professor

• I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Professor
  • Flower girl
  • Higgins

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