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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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