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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)

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

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

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

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

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

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill

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

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

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

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