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

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

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

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

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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