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Professor Quotes

Quotes on what it means to be a professor.

These quotes take a wry look at being a professor: one joke that a professor talks in someone else's sleep, a psychiatry professor at Johns Hopkins who also writes, and a note that teaching and testifying draw on the same instincts. See our Activist quotes.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Quotes by W. H. Auden

I want to be an activist professor.

Quotes by Tariq Ramadan

I would have liked to have been a professor of sociology.

Quotes by Ron Moody

I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976.

Quotes by Robert Huber

Activist Quotes

I know myself. I'm not gonna be a mathematician or a professor.

Quotes by Noah Centineo

Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.

Quotes by Nancy Gibbs

My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology.

Quotes by Marvin Sapp

I'm looking like Atlas, not Professor Klump.

Quotes by Martellus Bennett

I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.

Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison

Atlas Quotes

What I did as a professor is not that different than what I do in hearings.

Quotes by Katie Porter

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

Quotes by Karl von Frisch

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

Quotes by J. Philippe Rushton

To be an outspoken professor in academia is a very dangerous proposition.

Quotes by Gad Saad

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

Quotes by G. H. Hardy

Became Quotes

I'm a tenured professor. But I'd get rid of tenure.

Quotes by Francis Fukuyama

I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.

Quotes by Condoleezza Rice

An important event in my scientific life has been my appointment as a Professor at the College de France in 1973.

Quotes by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

My dad was an English professor.

Quotes by Blake Lively

Arsene Wenger is different. He's a purist. He's a professor of football. A professor.

Quotes by Alexis Sanchez

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this Professor quotes page about?
It takes a wry look at academic life, from a joke that a professor talks in someone else's sleep to a real psychiatry professor at Johns Hopkins who also writes.
Why do people search for professor quotes?
Professors occupy a familiar but often joked-about role, so readers look for lines that are both witty and genuinely reflective of academic life.
Is there a quote here connecting teaching to public testimony?
Yes, one quote notes that what they did as a professor isn't that different from what they do in hearings, drawing a direct line between teaching and testifying.
Does any quote rule out becoming a professor?
One states plainly they know themselves well enough to know they're not going to be a mathematician or a professor, treating self-knowledge as the deciding factor.
Where can I find more academic-themed quotes?
For more academic and career-related lines, see our Activist and Atlas quotes.

Not everyone here wanted the title, but they wear it well. For related lines, browse our Atlas and Became quotes.