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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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