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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland

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