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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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