“What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!”
Isaac Asimov
“Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you”
Stephen Vizinczey
“Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.”
Frederick Douglas
“I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.”
Gregory Peck
