Top 362 Lecture Quotes & Sayings

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.

When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture.

There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

Only bad teachers lecture at a tutorial.

Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd of cows, moving slowly in the direction they are being driven towards. If we make one point, we have a good chance that the audience will take the right direction; if we make several points, then the cows will scatter all over the field. The audience will lose interest and everyone will go back to the thoughts they interrupted in order to come to our lecture.

I beg you, cease going from lecture to lecture; It's better to seek truth directly. The nature of Diamond Wisdom excludes even a speck of dust. From "Thus we have heard," to "This I believe," All is but an array of unreal names.

If great lecture is theatre, the future of learning is games.

Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But the people who do go to a lecture and who get tired of it, presently hold it as a sort of grudge against the lecturer personally. In reality his sufferings are worse than theirs.

Look, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther.

You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.

I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.

When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of myself that I would not otherwise make.

One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.

Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

If there is a problem somewhere, this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person-only one- will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it. Now...which person are you?

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

I do sometimes lecture people about what they’re eating, but that’s only if they ask me.

No one wants a lecture when you're getting a latte. So if you get one without asking, isn't that grounds for some discipline?

I think the media's primarily an interesting backdrop - a fertile backdrop, in which we can discuss a great deal involving the human condition. We're not trying to lecture the media on how it should be doing its job or lecture people on who they should be voting for, but it does provide an incredible backdrop on which we can paint a lot of pictures and open up a lot of discussions.

The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.

Vitellius would've given Percy an hour-long lecture on the subject, probably with a PowerPoint presentation.

When I give a lecture on Egypt there are thousands of people in the lecture hall, so obviously they would like to go to science and they would love to do science, but you really have to get the correct science base in order for them to interact.

Of what good would another lecture on peace be? Peace is not something to lecture about, but something to put into practice.

Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and wherever you are, whenever you want, you can connect to that lecture. The other is this interactivity, where if you know a topic, you can kind of skip over it. Or if you're confused about it, [the area] where you're confused can be analyzed by software.

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

If I disagree with someone, I let them have their say and move on. I don't want to be the one to lecture.

Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery, hones over the years in elementary-econ lecture halls. He knew, without even thinking, to address the middle rows of the hall, but to occasionally "shoot" the listeners in the back corners. He knew how to make eye contact and solicit the attention of those who were thinking of other things.

All human beings are moral beings. So, certainly there are alliances. We are in the countries, that are secular states, and we obey its laws. I think we must recognize that common moral base. But in alliances we must always be careful just of what level the alliance is perceived. I will go and lecture to an atheist society, for example, but I will not lecture for them, because I am not an atheist. You see the difference.

The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off!

We were told in one lecture that it was possible to immunize against diphtheria and tetanus by the use of chemically treated toxins, or toxoids. And the following lecture, we were told that for immunization against a virus disease, you have to experience the infection, and that you could not induce immunity with the so-called "killed" or inactivated, chemically treated virus preparation. Well, somehow, that struck me. What struck me was that both statements couldn't be true. And I asked why this was so, and the answer that was given was in a sense, 'Because.' There was no satisfactory answer.

The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation.

I do sometimes lecture people about what they're eating, but that's only if they ask me.

Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story.

My parents never really lecture me.

You rarely get a convincing lecture on playing to your strength from a bald guy with a ponytail.

A one-size-fits-all lecture is not the way to go about education.

A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.

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

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

The big message I give to all of our clients, and anyone we lecture to, is you have to be smart with your money.

I say getting a lecturing from Oprah is probably the most terrifying lecture you could possibly get.

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science.

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.

In opening your doors to woman, it is mind that will enter the lecture room, it is intelligence that will ask for food; sex will never be felt where science leads for the atmosphere of thought will be around every lecture.

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

Dude did you come here to lecture or to fight? BRING IT ON." -Slam Dunk

I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.

How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.

As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.

I went to a lecture of [Arthur Koestler ] once, I never met him.

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

We don't want to go to a movie and sit in a lecture.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

Every weekend, I would get the drunk driving lecture. Of course, Dad drank and drove all the time. I guess it wasn't a lecture; it was helpful tips from the master.

Milton Friedman had the grace and good sense to recognize that he wanted to talk to the general public. He wasn't going to just lecture to the people who happened to appear in his classroom in Chicago or on some lecture circuit. He went out to talk to the general public, believing that you had to convince a democratic nation to change its ways, and he succeeded to a considerable extent.

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

It's useless to lecture a human.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.