Professor
One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.
One who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy.
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Professor Quotations
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
Coco Chanel
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Soren Kierkegaard
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
H. L. Mencken
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Heraclitus
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
William James
Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
Ezra Pound
To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
Sarah Palin
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
W. H. Auden
Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.
Slavoj Zizek
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg
Professor Translations
professor in Afrikaans is professor
professor in Danish is professor
professor in Dutch is professor
professor in French is prof, professeur
professor in German is Hochschullehrer
professor in Italian is professore
professor in Latin is magister
professor in Swedish is professor
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