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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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