“ Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. ”
- John Hersey- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I studied with Robert Morss Lovett, the great professor of epic literature. Another important influence was Ronald S. Crane, a professor of aesthetics at the University of Chicago. ”
- Marguerite Young- Copy
- 891
“ One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. ”
- James Watson- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The left and the right can do the same thing. The Net can do the same thing for racists as it did for the Dean campaign. Treating your readers not as readers but as participants is a really good way of creating community and getting supporters. ”
- David Weinberger- Copy
- 2.3K
“ 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- Copy
- 754
“ America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.3K
“ A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
- 1.7K
“ 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. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. ”
- Sinclair Lewis- Copy
- 705
“ 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- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it. ”
- Charles Macklin- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors. ”
- Tristan Tzara- Copy
- 923
“ Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. ”
- George Givot- Copy
- 2K
“ What we become depend on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost. ”
- Vladimir Lenin- Copy
- 104
“ I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 3.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 666
“ Although I play Moe, Apu, Wiggum, Professor Frink, oddly I feel like Lisa Simpson inside. I've been doing silly voices since I was a child - it's a nice outlet for that. ”
- Hank Azaria- Copy
- 3.6K
“ A good professor is a bastard perverse enough to think what he thinks is important, not what government thinks is important. ”
- Edward C. Banfield- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture. ”
- Hal Boyle- Copy
- 111
“ A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor. ”
- Sofia Coppola- Copy
- 312
“ The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep. ”
- Suzanne Fields- Copy
- 3.3K
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