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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells

"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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland

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

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

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