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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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