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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg