In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other ‚studies‘ courses.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.