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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard

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

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

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

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

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

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch

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

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

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein

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

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

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