Professors Quotes - Page 10

• One of my professors said to me once, "Any god that can be killed off will be killed, but if I can shake up your faith in your god, it means you already don't have much of a god."

  John Shelby Spong

  Mean, Said, Shakes

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• [My father] was also a lawyer in his bank and specialized in tax law. He would have to do the tax returns for all the Harvard profs because they were buffaloed by that kind of reasoning. Professors in the economics department, even they knew nothing about it.

  Paul Laffoley

  Father, Law, Return

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.

  Joe Biden

  Ideas, Community, Littles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [Miranda Hentoff] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she was explaining how [Béla] Bartok composed his second piano concerto. And she explained how the music was interwoven with the rhythms and what he had in his mind. And I was just stunned. This is a kid who used to work - on a piano with a cracked keyboard.

  Nat Hentoff

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  People, Language, Remember

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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• Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people like Jobs.

  Alex Gibney

  Jobs, Thinking, Long Ago

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Monsanto will not come empty-handed. Monsanto will come with a big bag of money. And because these governments are poor, when they are shown money for their research institutions, for their universities, for their professors, they are very quick to say yes, and I can tell you that when Monsanto came to Kenya, they were able to be given permission to do research in one of our research institutions, and yet there was not a single law to control such research.

  Wangari Maathai

  Law, Government, Kenya

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• I always - I knew from day one , in college, that I wanted to be a teacher .But I don't think I had envisioned becoming a professor at the time. I remained a history major until 1951.

  David C. Driskell

  Teacher, College, Thinking

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I think that relations between professors and grad students can be messy and not entirely boundable. Part of the problem is that those boundaries become eroticized. I don't think people are quite so managerial with their sexuality. By suggesting that sex can be successfully regulated, we're imposing stupidity on the issue.

  Laura Kipnis

  Sex, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• To win that war [with radical Islamic extremists] we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

  Sarah Palin

  War, Islamic, Winning

  Source: www.today.com

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• An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in Eastern European countries for being an accomplice of the dissidents. None of these descriptions is important by itself; taken together, on the other hand, they mean something. And I must admit that I rather like what they mean.

  Michel Foucault

  Country, Taken, Mean

  Source: www.nicklewis.org

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• I feel that very strongly: having been an academic, having been tempted by the invitation to stay on to become a Ph.D., a professor, and all that, one side of me certainly does respect all disciplines, as long as they don't ossify.

  Sylvia Plath

  Discipline, Long, Doe

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• When I studied computer science at Duke University in the first half of the 1980s, I had professors who treated women differently than men. I kind of got used to it. At Microsoft, I had to use my elbows and make sure I spoke up at the table, but it was an incredibly meritocratic place. Outside, in the industry, I would feel the sexism. I'd walk into a room and until I proved my worth, everyone would assume that the guy presenting with me had credibility and I didn't.

  Melinda Gates

  Men, Guy, Elbows

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Why did the people think [Vietnam war] was fundamentally wrong and immoral? The guys who ran the polls, John E. Rielly, a professor at the University of Chicago, a liberal professor, he said what that means is that people thought too many Americans had being killed. Another possibility is they didn't like the fact that we were carrying out the worst crime since the Second World War. But that's so inconceivable that wasn't even offered as a possible reason.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students, the haplessly gifted Hippasus, discovered irrational numbers that he sent the poor fellow out on a raft to drown, initiating a venerable tradition of professors mistreating their graduate students.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Irrational Numbers, Legends, Students

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.31, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.

  Elie Wiesel

  Crosses, Frank

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I teach Biblical themes, Biblical events.

  Elie Wiesel

  Biblical, Events, Doe

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• In 2004 Professor Stephen Farnsworth, when I report saying that I got about five minutes on all the networks after Labor Day to election day: only five minutes even though I, like you, were representing majoritarian issues.

  Ralph Nader

  I Like You, Issues, Labor Day

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• The other thing [my psychology professor] said to me was that I was always very mindful of the person who was away from the group, that I was always trying to bring them in.

  Paul Beatty

  Always Trying, Psychology, Groups

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• I co-taught a seminar called Small Group Processes with my professor. I learned so much from it, so much about myself, about groups, how this stuff works. I bring all that stuff to teaching now.

  Paul Beatty

  Teaching, Groups, Stuff

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Well, it's not all the same, but there are a lot of parallels. I'm not sure how to answer [on psychology background], but I think when I was studying psychology I had a professor and a friend who would talk about "process" all the time. Your process, his process, the group's process. There's some carryover from that discussion to my creative work.

  Paul Beatty

  Thinking, Creative, Psychology

  "Paul Beatty: I See You". Interview With Chris Paul Wolfe, www.guernicamag.com. October 27, 2016.

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• I was in a fascinating meeting where one man had been in China recently. A Chinese professor has found evidence that Christians reached Western China before 90 AD. Before 90 AD! The idea isn't all that astonishing when we think about it. That's what the disciples thought they were supposed to do! And, I'm sure, the disciples just said, "That's it. Let's go!" And they all wound up dead. But everyone else did too!

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Thinking, Men

  Source: renovare.org

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• I would say that by being irresponsibly disorganized, by saying yes to everything and then seeing how it all works out, that I end up in some place closer to where I had imagined I would be, before I started to study philosophy, than I would ever be had I followed through in any sort of responsible way, and become the professor of philosophy that I shudder to think I might potentially have become.

  Jonathon Keats

  Philosophy, Thinking, Work Out

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The media does not do news. The media is the Democrat Party hacks assigned to journalism positions. Some hacks are consultants. Some are candidates. Some serve in elective office. Some are professors. Some are teaching assistants. Some run think tanks. Others are in the media.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Party, Teaching

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Very few college professors want high school graduates in their history class who are simply "gung ho" and "rah-rah" with regard to everything the United States has ever done, have never thought critically in their life, don't know the meaning of the word "historiography" and have never heard of it. They think that history is something you're supposed to memorize and that's about it. That's not what high school, or what college history teachers want.

  James W. Loewen

  Teacher, School, College

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

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