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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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