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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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