Henry Adams
A teacher affects eternity; no one can tell where his influence stops.

John Adams in a letter to his wife, dated 1780
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Joseph Addison
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Woody Allen
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Karl Arbeiter former teacher of Albert Einstein
You're aware the boy failed my grade school math class, I take it? And not that many years later he's teaching college. Now I ask you: Is that the sorriest indictment of the American educational system you ever heard? [pauses to light cigarette.] No aptitude at all for long division, but never mind. It's him they ask to split the atom. How he talked his way into the Nobel prize is beyond me. But then, I suppose it's like the man says, it's not what you know...

Daniel J. Boorstin
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

William Bragg
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Warren Buffett
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

George Bush
...do your homework. You can't lead without knowing what you're talking about...

John W. Campbell
History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells "Can't you remember anything I told you?" and lets fly with a club.

Albert Camus
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

George Carlin
How do you write zero in Roman numerals?

Winston Churchill
I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught.

John Dewey
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

George A. Dorsey
The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.

Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.

James Madison
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who means to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Alan Magid
We live and we learn. But, sadly, at different rates.

Wilson Mizner
When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it form many writers, it's research.

VP Dan Quayle speaking to the United Negro College Fund
What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

VP Dan Quayle
I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret that I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

VP Dan Quayle
We're going to be the best-educated American people in the world.

VP Dan Quayle
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Dan Rather
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Will Rogers
Everybody is ignorant, only of different subjects.

Will Rogers
Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

Theodore Issac Rubin
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Jeff Stilson
I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That may be. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals. We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners.

Philip Streifer, Superintendent of Schools, Barrington, Rhode Island
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.

Mr. T.
Pity the fool!

Judy Tenuta
I got an "A" in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.

Alvin Toffler
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

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

Mark Twain
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Mark Twain
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Lao-Tzu
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Robert Wilensky
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

Winnie the Pooh
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

Malcolm X
Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.