I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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