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)

"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

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

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

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

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

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein

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

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

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

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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