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

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

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

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

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

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch

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

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

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi

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

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett

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

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

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

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

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous

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

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

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

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

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---- Steve Dembo

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar