Quotes About Professors

Surely a number of such people want to do the right thing, are well-intentioned, but just as surely some do not act from creditable intentions. Some of our elites…professors, journalists, makers of motion pictures and television entertainment, et al.…delight in nihilism and destruction as much as do the random killers in our cities. Their weapons are just different.

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost." ? Vladimir Ilich Lenin

The professors' conceit was to think that models could forecast the limits of behavior. In fact, the models could tell them what was reasonable or what was predictable based on the past. The professors overlooked the fact that people, traders included, are not always reasonable. This is the true lesson of Long-Term's demise. No matter what the models say, traders are not machines guided by silicon chips; they are impressionable and imitative; they run in flocks and retreat in hordes.

Leipzig that the university had to pass a rule against throwing stones at professors.

At the University of Bologna, there was another bizarre twist on what is the norm today: students fined their professors for unexcused absence or tardiness, or for not answering difficult questions.

The German university students were among the earliest groups to back Hitler. The intellectuals were among his regime's most ardent supporters. Professors with distinguished academic credentials, eager to pronounce their benediction on the Führer's cause, put their scholarship to work full time; they turned out a library of admiring volumes, adorned with obscure allusions and learned references.

The root cause of Nazism lies in a power that most people ignore, disparage—and underestimate. The cause is not the events hailed or cursed in headlines and street rallies, but the esoteric writings of the professors who, decades or centuries earlier, laid the foundation for those events.

Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z....

I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the world you want to go and in any time period to boot, and the lessons you learn from a good book can buoy your own convictions and even change your life.

And while this might just be the cliché attraction that many students were fabled to feel toward their professors—although this seemed to work better for literature professors than for those teaching physics—he didn't care.

More than 90% of professors rate themselves as better-than-average teachers. About 90% of Americans rate their driving ability as better than average. Only 1% of students think their social skills are below average.

I learn more from my kids then I have any professor in all my life.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

I don't see kids with Palm Pilots. They are not common on college campuses, except among professors. Gen Xers don't need them. They are a phenomenon of the 50-something who can't remember if his broker's number ends in 1137 or 3317.

Many professors tell you that you'd be good at this or that, but they don't always help you with that career path.

Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn't really know how to want a different kind of job.

Business school professors don't take selling seriously because they don't know how to sell. It's easy to talk about business theory and production time and just-in-time development. Selling is much more difficult.

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

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

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.

I was close with some of my old professors.