Knowledge Adventurer Gifts

Graduation Time.

'I'm exhausted from too much enlightened skepticism, fresh perceptive thinking, intellectual challenges and independent ideas. What I need is some simple cliche living!'

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

In the future, human thought will enter an age of clarity and purity never before dreamed of.

Thomas Mann.

'I didn't do my homework because I forgot my user name and password.'

Continuing education.

"In my life, I've had seven cars, six jobs, five houses, four bypass operations, and three wives!"

'Now Featuring Gas-Fired Microwave Campfires!'

Philosophy Department: You are here but why are you here?

Blue Stockings

Super Student

"Barb's such a fast reader."

Think Tank

'I need to borrow your Ph.D. for a half hour tomorrow. I have a major problem to solve.'

Wikipedia...

Academic Jeopardy - "The great unknowns and cosmic uncertainties of the universe are reduced by this number daily."

"Life after death"

"Wait, wait, back up, back up. Who the #!@! is George Orwell?"

'Academic freedom doesn't mean you're free not to study.'

'This course in philosophy is not designed to teach you how to make a living. I will be teaching you how to make a life.'

"I might have to go to school forever because the more I know the more I know I don't know."

"My husband's the academic. I just like to travel. I'm more of a pandemic."

'You present a very convincing argument.'

"All I ask is a chance to ruin my life in my own way."

'Oh, the guru is up on the next peak -- I'm his agent.'

"Oh my goodness. My lecture on John Donne has just been awarded Most Pizzazzy Metaphysical Lecture of the Year."

"It looks like we've reached the end of reality..."

'Miss, I think I've learnt all I can too.'

"You know, it really wasn’t that bad."

"Always with the cancer cures, this one."

Professor McWit, crushed by an avalanche of Philosophy 101 texts, proves again that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.