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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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