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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey

As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal

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

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

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

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

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