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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso

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

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

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown

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

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

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