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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford

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

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

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

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

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

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