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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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