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

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso

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---- Steve Dembo

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes

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

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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