Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett

The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland

it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison

To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin