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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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