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

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

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

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

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

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

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg

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

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

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

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

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