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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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