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The Professor
«The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all.»
Author: Catherine Drinker Bowen
(Writer)
| Keywords:
abjure, abjured, best of them, bitch, goddess, long ago, professor, professors, scholastic, The Professor
«After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
after all, books, book of knowledge, collection, collections, days, In books, manner, professors, These Days, The Professor, the true, university
«There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
days, philosophers, philosophy, professors, The Professor
«If you want to be the most popular person in your class, whenever the professor pauses in his lecture, just let out a big snort and say, 'How do you figger that!' real loud. Then lean back and sort of smirk.»
«From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. ''After dinner, the men moved into the living room.'' I explained to the professor that this was Rose' way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.»
«So in the end, what can anyone... scholar, professor, student or biographer... really say about these angels and devils, who once walked among us, though maybe just a bit higher off the ground?»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
| Keywords:
angels, a bit, biographer, biographers, bit, bite off, devils, get off the ground, ground, higher, Higher Ground, in the end, Just a, maybe, professor, scholar, student, The Professor, walked, walk off
«Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
college, educated, professors, The Professor, unable
«Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
paradox, professor, take away, The Professor, The Thinker, thinker