Quotessence
Home / Topics / Professors Quotes

Professors Quotes

Browse 862 quotes about Professors.

Related topics

IfsThinkingUniversityStudentsSaidKnowsPeopleCollegeWayBookMenYearsTeacherWritingFirstsSchoolWorldTeachingWellsLawShouldStudyCollege ProfessorsTeachTwoWantHas BeensLiteratureLongAcademicBelieveLooksWantedArtDoneEducationMadeScienceClassFatherGivingHarvardHumansMayIdeasLittlesDoeEnoughLecturesMindMotherPersonsReasonUniversity ProfessorsCoursesEconomicsNeedsPhilosophyDifferentFeelsKindMathematicsMcgonagallMeanProfessor McgonagallCountryFoundI CanLanguageStillsTaughtTheoryUsedCareFactsJobsRealReligiousStatesTodayWould BeGroupsGuyImportantModernPoliticalRememberTryingUseWarAbleBigsBlackChristianGraduatesHandsHardInspirationalInterestKidsmore

Professors Quotes

“A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch of the angry professor had been made in anger. Anger had snatched my pencil while I dreamt. But what was anger doing there? Interest, confusion, amusement, boredom--all these emotions I could trace and name as they succeeded each other throughout the morning. Had anger, the black snake, been lurking among them? Yes, said the sketch, anger had.”

MadeSaidNamesBlackInterestEmotionMorningPsychologyExerciseAngryConfusionAnalysisBoredomProfessorsSnakesPencilsAmusementNotebookPsychoLurking
Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
Create image

“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.”

MenWorldMayStatesRaceBreakDoubtCenturyPeriodsLowsNo DoubtProfessorsBlack PeopleSavagesAustralianApesDescentDarwinismGorillasCivilisedPopulation ControlBaboonsCaucasianOrigin Of Man
Book:The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
Create image

“Lee Jordan was finding it difficult not to take sides. 'So — after that obvious and disgusting bit of cheating —' 'Jordan!' growled Professor McGonagall. 'I mean after that open and revolting foul —' 'Jordan, I'm warning you —' 'All right, all right. Flint nearly kills the Gryffindor Seeker, which could happen to anyone, I'm sure, so a penalty to Gryffindor, taken by Spinnet, who puts it away, no trouble, and we continue play, Gryffindor still in possession.”

MeanStillsPlayHappensBitsDifficultSidesTakenTroubleFindingsObviousPossessionCheatingProfessorsWarningDisgustingPenaltiesSeekersFoulJordanFunny Harry PotterGryffindorMcgonagallProfessor Mcgonagall
Author:J. K. Rowling
Create image

“I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men. They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool with them. And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Desplaines river and I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordion.”

MenTryingChildrenTeachSawsTreeFoolRiversCrowdsBeerMeaning Of LifeSundayExecutivesBossProfessorsAfternoonWhat Is HappinessAccordionsHungariansSunday AfternoonsKegs
Book:Chicago Poems
Create image

“You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

InspirationalChangeAttitudeLearningGraceAcceptancePositivePositive ThinkingMindfulnessWavePositivityCreatorLife ChangingPositive AttitudeProfessorsEncouragingStoppingSurfingChanging Your LifeMaking ChangesSurfThink PositiveWords Of EncouragementLive And LearnPositive Thinking And AttitudeSurferLife LearningKeep A Positive AttitudeLife AttitudeYou Live And You LearnChange Your AttitudeHaving A Positive AttitudeKnobsThink Positive Be PositivePositive Attitude In LifeHaving A Bad DayPositive Thinking In LifeCool StatusOcean WavePositive Attitude ImagesCan't Stop MeWave Of LifeAttitude Of LoveRiding The WaveWaves Breaking
Book:Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Create image

“Miss Granger, you foolish girl, how could you think of tackling a mountain troll on your own? Five points will be taken from Gryffindor for this,” said Professor McGonagall. “I’m very disappointed in you.” Hermione left. Professor McGonagall turned to Harry and Ron. “Well, I still say you were lucky, but not many first years could have taken on a full-grown mountain troll. You each win Gryffindor five points.”

ThinkingYearsFirstsWellsSaidStillsGirlWinningLeftTakenFiveMissingLuckyMountainFoolishDisappointedProfessorsTrollHermioneTacklingGryffindorMcgonagallProfessor McgonagallDisappointed In You
Author:J. K. Rowling
Create image

“Right, you've got a crooked sort of cross..." He consulted Unfogging the Future. "That means you're going to have 'trials and suffering' — sorry about that — but there's a thing that could be the sun... hang on... that means 'great happiness'... so you're going to suffer but be very happy..." "You need your Inner Eye tested, if you ask me," said Ron, and they both had to stifle their laughs as Professor Trelawney gazed in their direction.”

IfsNeedsMeanSaidEyeSufferingAsksLaughingSunCrossesSorryTrialsAsk MeProfessorsVery HappyTestedCrookedGreat HappinessRon Weasley
Author:J. K. Rowling
Create image

“Hagrid, look what I’ve got for relatives!” Harry said furiously. “Look at the Dursleys!” “An excellent point,” said Professor Dumbledore. “My own brother, Aberforth, was prosecuted for practicing inappropriate charms on a goat. It was all over the papers, but did Aberforth hide? No, he did not! He held his head high and went about his business as usual! Of course, I’m not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been bravery. . . .”

LooksMayHas BeensSaidCoursesMy OwnBrotherPaperBraveryExcellentCharmProfessorsUsualPapersGoatsInappropriateHagrid
Author:J. K. Rowling
Create image

“The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor’s job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.”

IfsWayShouldMindLooksJobsGrowsResultsEffortTeachGrowingStudentsCollegeMirrorsObviousWork OutGreat ThingsBeing TrueMusclesGymProfessors
Book:The last lecture
Create image

“Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what sort of crazy children are you used to dealing with?" "Gryffindors," spat Professor McGonagall, the word carrying a freight of bitterness and despair that fell like an eternal curse on all youthful heroism and high spirits.”

WayFirstsChildrenReasonUsedSpiritCrazyDespairEternalAidsCurseBitternessProfessorsHeroismWrong WaySpatsGryffindorMcgonagallProfessor Mcgonagall
Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
Create image

“As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and sociological conditions. But in addition to being a professor in two fields I am a survivor of four camps - concentration camps, that is - and as such I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.”

MenTwoFourWorstConditionsSubjectsFieldsBearsCapablePsychologicalWitnessUnexpectedConcentrationSurvivorProfessorsCampsPsychiatryConcentration CampNeurologyDefyingSociological
Book:The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism
Create image

“Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a Columbia professor, all right? You don't do that by holding hands with every at-risk undergraduate who says he's homesick, or he's turning gay, or the dog ate his term paper. I write about Lincoln, and freedom, and great ideas. I don't always have time for students. It's like Dean Martin used to say: if you want to talk, go to a priest. Hey -- what's the gun for?”

IfsWantWritingLooksBookIdeasHandsUsedTermRoomsWrittenRiskDogStudentsSonGayPaperGunWindowFaultsHeyFiftyPriestsProfessorsGreat IdeaDeanColumbiaHolding HandsYour SonHomesickChristmas EveUndergraduateDormsDorm RoomsTerm Paper
Author:Eric Foner
Create image