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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey

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

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

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

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

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