Professors Quotes

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou

Mother, School, Ignorance

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Albert Camus

Best, Knowledge, True

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
Barack Obama

Black, Friends, Students

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle

Greatest, After, Become

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
James Joyce

Busy, Put, Keep

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.
Sun Myung Moon

Knowledge, Famous, Nothing

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

Two, Before, Since

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.
Michelle Obama

Made, Before, Try

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
Stephen Fry

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

Write, Writers, Thinkers

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
Camille Paglia

Life, Knowledge, America

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
Camille Paglia

Film, Criticism, Phony

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.
Michael Pollan

Time, Great, Struggle

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

God, She, Books

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.
Donald Cargill

Fool, Die, Champion

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
Rand Paul

Live, Children, Become

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

Parents, Made, College

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

Culture, Turn, Instrument

As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple doesn't make blenders. There's a reason Haagen-Dazs doesn't sell meat. And there's a reason drug companies should focus on saving and improving lives - not jeopardizing them.
Jeffrey Kluger

Best, Focus, Reason

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.
Shimon Peres

Finance, Night, Decisions

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

Freedom, Academic, Firing

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.
Josh Radnor

Same, Lovely, Leave

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
Noam Chomsky

Work, Done, Routine

Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction.
Mayim Bialik

Single, Ego, Position

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

Business, Done, Big

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

American, Dead, Cold

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with.
Jeffrey Eugenides

Mean, Down, Place

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

Real, Born, Poets

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.
Camryn Manheim

Family, Parents, Another

I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did.
George Weinberg

Try, Though, Deal

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