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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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