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

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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)

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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