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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.
Professors who hold unpopular positions or state inconvenient facts are now considered psychologically toxic.
Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men and women of action.
You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.
The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.
When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.
But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.
I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.
At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
Having studied at the Sorbonne, I spent my 21st birthday in Paris and celebrated with one of my professors in a cafe outside of Notre Dame.
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
I am the child of Indian immigrants, both of whom have Ph.D.s and are college professors, and I'm an actor in Hollywood.
This country hates professors. It likes Toby Keith - 'I'm gonna put a boot in their ass.' If you don't do that, somehow you can't be strong.
In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.
I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.
My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.
My parents, who were both professors at Tsinghua University, hoped that I would follow in their footsteps and become a professor.
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples.
There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda.
Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong.
Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.
Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.
The thing that was great about San Jose State was, I got connected with some very good professors.
It turns out one of my dad's best friends was Carl Sagan when I was little. They were both Harvard professors.
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.
The resources at Harvard - its professors, our fellow students, the libraries, its alumni - created for me the opportunity to pursue my passions in finance.
Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.
If the professors don't start or continue to figure out who we are as a people, where we're going and where we've been, then in a sense we are not capable of passing on that knowledge to future generations.
When I was studying in JNU, I realised how students and professors address each other as comrades.
This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings.
Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.
I write to be read. I'm quite direct about that. I'm not writing to thrill colleagues or to impress the professors at the University of Iowa; that's not my goal.
I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.
My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
Individuals whose asylum claims have been accepted have gone on to become professors, soldiers in our military, artists, and more.
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.
Making it to the Final Four, you feel like you're watched on campus. You're in the classroom, professors are talking about it.
Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.
The faculty, from adjunct professors to deans, tell you what to do, what to say, and more ominously, what to think.
Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.
I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.
