Top 244 Lectures Quotes & Sayings

A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.

Lectures often confuse our kids, but the example we set is crystal clear.

What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

I followed lectures on the history, geography, economy and political organization of Sweden.

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.

Wounds make better lessons than lectures.

It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures—but far and wide.

Then there are the people who know me from the lectures. What I am really trying to do, what I need to accomplish at this time, is to fill in the gaps.

In case you're unfamiliar with TED, it is a series of short lectures on a variety of subjects that stream on the Internet for free.

It's legendary how architectural lectures can be incredibly boring.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

I am no Rushdie. The only people who think of silencing me are my students, on days when my lectures are more opaque than usual.

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.

Live events and lectures in front of large audiences. It is the best. I like it more than eating dinner.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.

I prefer to hike in nature, give lectures, or be with family when not working.

Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.

When 'The Bell Curve' came out, I'd have lectures with lots of people chanting and picketing with signs, but it was always within the confines of the event and I was eventually able to speak.

What I learned about the mob wasn't through lectures at the academy.

I know you so well, dragon king, you only get that particular look on your face when you're burning to give me one of your lectures." "Do I give you lectures ?" "Oh, I don't mind. I think you're kind of cute when you do, and I don't really listen anyway.

You won't catch me giving clear lectures.

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.

I should like to make myself free to all who care to attend my lectures.

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!

Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.

Since 'The Overachievers' came out, I've been doing a lot of lectures and talking to kids across the country.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

To be honest, I didn't really enjoy much of uni life. I turned up for lectures, I got my degree - the rest of the time was spent at the radio station.

Reactions [on my 1979 Massey lectures] were from Anglophones. I'm one. But I'm terrible at French. In fact, there was practically no reaction.

We need to have lectures about why we can't have every day things like mayonnaise, ketchup and Coke.

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

I've got a great relationship with my oldest grandson because we go to political meetings and lectures, which I love.

Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen.

Coming up with lectures is a huge amount of work. I was willing to do one lecture for Gresham because I was honored to have been invited, but to create lectures for a class would probably require that I shut down everything else and concentrate on lectures for a couple of years. Then there would be many, many other skills that I'd have to learn, such as how to sit through a faculty meeting, how to deal with students, etc. It is really not in the cards for me. It's not who I am or what I do. I'm a novelist.

Henceforward, I shout to the heavens, I shall deliver no more lectures on behalf of good causes: I am the good cause that denies the need for such lectures. Avaunt, importuning world! Back to my cell.

When I was just writing books and giving lectures, if people disagreed, they just didn't buy your book or attend your lectures. But, if you're leading a congregation, people feel they have the right to tell you what you should or shouldn't talk about. And that hasn't always been easy for me.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

Let children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours!

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.

Whenever I have given lectures to a large audience before, I have always looked for an ending that gives a 'wow' feeling.

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

We've all had classes with a professor so bland and monotone that their lectures sound like Mitt Romney reading 'Paradise Lost' from a blown speaker.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

I used my talent as a speaker giving lectures to young people at schools in Hungary and I speak against hatred and anti-Semitism.