Lectures Quotes

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

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.

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

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

I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.

Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

I would love to lecture to women on men. I'd tell them everything about men: gay, straight, bi, how we're all the same, how we're all bastards.

Friedman stumbled in, late to the seminar as usual and reeking of cigar smoke and whiskey. He hadn't read the paper being presented, and halfway through he just gets up, walks up to the podium, socks the mother****er right in the face and takes a piss all over his lecture notes.

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

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

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

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

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.

Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.

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

While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed...Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians trapped in squalid refugee camps to just get over it.

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

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

Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.

You cannot lecture another people about what you think is right or wrong based on your value system unless you're willing to accept others imposing their value system on you.

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

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.

The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.