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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown

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