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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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