Professors Quotes - Page 8

• There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

  Allan Bloom

  Believe, Entering, Students

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• I would have all the professors in colleges, all the teachers in schools of every kind, including those in Sunday schools, agree that they would teach only what they know, that they would not palm off guesses as demonstrated truths.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

  Madeleine Albright

  Book, Government, Hands

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• If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.

  Stephen Leacock

  Reading, Book, Smoking

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• When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

  Clarence Day

  Police, Legacy, Eras

  Clarence Day (1928). “Thoughts without words”

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• My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

  Eliza Dushku

  Mom, Teaching, Boston

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• Let’s be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare you too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason. What does all of this mean? It means that telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can’t be far behind. Before you claim to be a champion of free thought, tell me: Why did political correctness originate on America’s campuses? And why do you continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who’re supposed to debate ideas, surrender to their suppression?

  Charlton Heston

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "Why Johnny can't disobey" by Sarah J. McCarthy, www.wnd.com. March 20, 1999.

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• It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.

  Saul Williams

  Party, Kids, Rocks

  "Saul Williams", www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 5, 2012.

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• There you see how absurd the reactions of the so-called markets are. For a long time, Italy was run by one of the most unprofessional politicians anywhere. But there wasn't much pressure in terms of speculation. Now, in Mario Monti, Italy has the kind of leader you usually only get in Hollywood movies, a distinguished professor who won't even accept a cook at his residence, the Palazzo Chigi. Instead Monti's wife cooks their pasta herself - and this is the man the markets don't trust.

  Martin Schulz

  Running, Men, Long

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was an adjunct. I never got tenure, never had it. I was a professor, though. But I never got tenure. I never really wanted tenure, to tell you the truth. Really wasn't - the guys who got - the tenured people were some of, like, the least interesting. And they were people I didn't really like very much anyway.

  Robert Barry

  People, Interesting, Guy

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Yet another video has emerged of MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber calling Americans 'stupid,' and bragging about how the Affordable Care Act's drafters had to deceive the public in order to pass the law.

  Alexander Viets Griswold

  Stupid, Law, Obamacare

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• I started modeling when I was - not older, but not 12. I have a mom who's a feminist, she's an English professor, an intellectual. She really gave me the equipment to understand that you can celebrate yourself without putting yourself down or needing to apologize for the way you look. I think that attitude is really crucial for a model.

  Emily Ratajkowski

  Mom, Attitude, Thinking

  "Q&A: Emily Ratajkowski on 'Blurred Lines' and Her Song of the Summer". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. July 22, 2013.

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• I've been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I'm not a mathematician only. I'm a professor of physics, of economics, a long list. Each element of this list is normal. The combination of these elements is very rare at best.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Yale, Long, Lists

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  World, Littles, Firsts

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not - for the job that I should spend my life in.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Jobs, Way, France

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become a college professor.

  Samuel Alito

  College, Political, Degrees

  "An Interview With Justice Samuel Alito on Immigration, His Mentors and Advice for a Successful Life". Interview with Madaline Donnelly, dailysignal.com. November 09, 2014.

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• I went to a girls high school and I went to a women's college and when I first started teaching at Georgetown it had been a single sex school and so they wanted to have some women professors when they went co-ed, and so I originally was hired to start a program there, and really encourage women to go into foreign policy. I always have done that, and I really do think that things are better when women are involved.

  Madeleine Albright

  Girl, Sex, Teaching

  Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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• He's a great - he's a great professor. He retired recently, but.But Peter Halley as well.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Peter, Wells, Retired

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• And as a young black man, a lot of my professors would really think that it was useful to see the work of politically oriented, positivistic, leftist creative works. And I found it incredibly useful. And I found it something that I've learned from and gained from.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Men, Thinking, Creative

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• My seminar is for highschool students, decent undergraduates, bright graduates, and outstanding professors.

  Israel Gelfand

  Students, Graduates, Outstanding

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• Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention to a textbook, and that unwillingness to learn from Authority that comes from making almost verbatim lecture notes and handing them back to the professor.

  Anthony Standen

  Learning, Humility, Science

  Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”

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• I'm not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety. I have a master's from Yale drama, and I auditioned for this. So obviously I want to be in the limelight in some capacity, or I want to be in entertainment in some capacity.

  Adam Richman

  Drama, Math, Yale

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's an African-American professor at a noted Ivy League school who is saying there's three kinds of white people, and only one of the three different kinds is worth anything, and that they're so tiny and so small a group that you don't need to be worried.

  Rush Limbaugh

  School, Ivy, White

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I look at Large Professor as a big influence. I grew up with him and being able to grow up with him enabled me to meet Nas, Busta, Q-Tip and all these people I looked up to at the time. Even Large himself. He was a good friend but at the same time he was definitely someone I looked up to.

  Mic Geronimo

  Growing Up, Good Friend, People

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn't a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.

  Russell Simmons

  Fire, Genius, Records

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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