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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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