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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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