I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument of the fountain pen to the note-book of the student without passing through the mind of either.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.
Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been... I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it.
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.
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.
Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.
It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.
Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
I am standing on the seashore. A ship spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. I stand watching her until she fades on the horizon, and someone at my side says, She is gone. Gone where? The loss of sight is in me, not in her. Just at the moment when someone says, She is gone, there are others who are watching her coming. Other voices take up the glad shout, Here she comes! That is dying.
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.
We have to be women we want our daughters to be.
Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up.
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