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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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