University Professor

Famous quotes containing the words university and/or professor:

“The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see what a work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)