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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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