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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch

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