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

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995

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

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

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

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg

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

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

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

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard

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 a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein

Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown

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

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

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei

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

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir