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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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