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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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