"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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