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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

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

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