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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo