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There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

— Allan Bloom

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

— Pankaj Mishra

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

— Paul Twitchell

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

— Soren Kierkegaard

I'm a very happy university professor... the best thing about being a university professor is that you see young people as they're being shaped and molded toward their own future, and you have a chance to be a part of that.

— Condoleezza Rice

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

— Henri Bergson

My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

— Gabriel Mann

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

— George Bancroft

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

— Henry Kissinger

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

— Daniel Kahneman

✗Opposing Perspectives

You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are encouraged to enjoy their subject and to pass it on.

— Magnus Magnusson