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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown