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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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