Browse Professor Quotes

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers. - Kahlil Gibran, as quoted by Prof. Jolt.


—That teacher you hate may be one of your best! Oy vay!
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. Plato, as quoted by Prof. Jolt.
—Definitely a quote for our time!
A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart. - Prof. Jolt
—An engineering plan for the building of wisdom!
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein
—How's that for new math?
There I stood and humbly scanned
The miracle that sense appalls,
And I watched the tourists stand
Spitting in Niagara Falls.
—Morris Bishop (1893-1973), U.S. professor of Medieval literature and light verse poet.
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. --Baltasar Gracian, as quoted by Prof. Jolt.
—Oh, yeah, make sure you have plenty of textbook "pillows" around!
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, as quoted by Prof. Jolt.
—Just don't leave anything edible, or some monkey might eat your trail!
A room without books is like a body without a soul. -- Cicero, as quoted by a TU Professor.
—In that case, TU students must really have soul!