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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso

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

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

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

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

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

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

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