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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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'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

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

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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