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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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