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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard

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

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

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

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