Lectures Quotes - Page 2

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.

I do sometimes lecture people about what they’re eating, but that’s only if they ask me.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it. You cannot psychologically reframe your experience and decide you did not like the shirt, here's an excuse to throw it out - that sort of thing.

Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.

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.

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.

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

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.

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

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.

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

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.

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

You won't catch me giving clear lectures.