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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This may be the most interesting blog theme I've ever seen. http://eflgeek.com/index.php Definitely in my top 5 at least.
---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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