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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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