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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein

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

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

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

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov

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