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

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

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

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison

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

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

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

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