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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

You won't catch me giving clear lectures.

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

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

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

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.

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