Professors Quotes - Page 3

...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that much of that body of work had been fabricated well after the establishment of Islam in order to lend outside support to Koranic mythology.... [T]he Iranian journalist and diplomat Ali Dashti...repeatedly took his fellow Muslims to task for not questioning the traditional accounts of Muhammad's life, much of which he called myth-making and miracle-mongering.

Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

I want to be an activist professor.

Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems.

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.

And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s.

I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976.

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

I'm afraid," Professor Piper said, "afraid that you're never going to discover what you're truly capable of. That you won't get to see-that I won't get to see-any of the wonder that's inside of you.

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.

I've learned so much from my professors and have been fortunate to have had so many good ones, including Frederick and Steven Barthelme, Edward Carey, Jim Magnuson, and Elizabeth McCracken.

Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University.

It's generally sort of sociologically observed that the better educated people are, the more liberal they tend to be, which would suggest that professors are going to be more liberal than the general public.

One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.