Lectures Quotations | Page 2

I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.

Today the university combines many elements - great lectures, study groups, students in the lab - and the lecture piece should be broken off. The very best lectures from India or the U.S. or Britain will be available in streaming video, so students can consume that wherever they want and don't have to go do that all together in one place.

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.

When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture.

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

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 suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.

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.

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco-chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have chewed which I could lecture against.

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

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.

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

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.

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.