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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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