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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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