Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown

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

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

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard

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

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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