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

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995

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

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

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

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

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

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