Lectures Quotes

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

Let children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours!

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.

The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten.

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

What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.

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.

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.

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.

Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.

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

Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.

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.

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

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.

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

If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.

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

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.

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.

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

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

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.

We need to have lectures about why we can't have every day things like mayonnaise, ketchup and Coke.

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.

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

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.

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

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

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

One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less."

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

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.

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

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

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.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

My lectures were highly esteemed, but my operations less thought of, so that I am of opinion that my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it.

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

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