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

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

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

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

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

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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