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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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