Quotes by Professors - Page 3

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and forboding.
Norman Cousins
Don't defy the diagnosis try to defy the verdict.
Norman Cousins
One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.
Kenneth Koch
Magic lives in curves not angles.
Mason Cooley
The worst cynicism a belief in luck.
Joyce Carol Oates
Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.
Louis Ginsberg
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Norman Cousins
Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children and life is the other way around.
David Lodge
Love is how you stay alive even after you are gone.
Morrie Schwartz
A good laugh helps us recognize how ridiculous it is to get excited about matters that are often trivial. . . .
Arthur Asa Berger
It has always seemed to me that hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
Norman Cousins
Life is ever since man was born licking honey from a thorn.
Louis Ginsberg
An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.
Laurence H. Tribe
Our knowledge can only be finite while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Karl Popper
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
Sir William Blackstone
Reasons are whores.
Leonard Michaels
Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.
Mark Van Doren
A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
Joyce Carol Oates
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
Norman Cousins
More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles bills and proclamations.
John Barth
History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins
Keep your heart open for as long as you can as wide as you can for others and especially for yourself.
Morrie Schwartz
Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong but something greater: it seems inevitable.
Margaret Sherwood
Only when men are connected to large universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.
Joyce Carol Oates
Happy the man who knows his duties!
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
It's where we go and what we do when we get there that tells us who we are.
Joyce Carol Oates
Friendship marks a life even more deeply rhan love. Love risks degenerating into obsession friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.
Mason Cooley
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins
At the end of every diet the path curves back toward the trough.
Mason Cooley
Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
Neil Armstrong
There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told and the man who will do nothing else.
Dr. Perle Thompson
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Elie Wiesel
It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony like a following breeze at sea is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost our lot is to tack and tune.
Harvey Oxenhorn
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
Barry Commoner
The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle but to make them long for it.
Louis Simpson
The Jews have always been students and their greatest study is themselves.
Albert Goldman
The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.
Leon Eisenberg
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
David Lodge
A gentleman need not know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it.
Brander Matthews
Nothing ever tasted any better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to but more of the same.
Hugh Hood
I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.
Olga Broumas
Catch courage.
Carolyn Heilbrun
Why not is a slogan for an interesting life.
Mason Cooley
Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others but only widen it.
Mason Cooley
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house Not a creature was stirring - not even a mouse The stockings were hung by the chimney with care In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
Clement C. Moore
An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.
Mason Cooley
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and overlook the motive and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.
John Barth
Dogs often remind us of the human ail-too human. Cats never.
Mason Cooley
Every man even the most blessed needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.
Vance Bourjaily
Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Norman Cousins
Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.
Mason Cooley
The trouble with this whole country is that it's divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them.
Hugh MacLennan
The Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec.
Hugh MacLennan
Toronto has no social classes - only the Masseys and the masses.
B. K. Sandwell
The Greeks who knew everything understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.
Hugh MacLennan
The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.
Norman Cousins
Enjoy how sweet how thoughtful how kind I'm being on your birthday. Because tomorrow it's back to the same old crap.
Melvin Helitzer
An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.
Hugh MacLennan