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GFF Alumnus Evan Wiggs Studies Astrophysics at Columbia University.

GFF Alumnus Evan Wiggs Studies Astrophysics at Columbia University.

Oct 16, 2025 | News, Where Are They Now? — 2025

Evan says that after settling in, he is “walking the streets like an official, very busy New Yorker.”

Liam Batteau attends a summer immersion jazz workshop at Stanford University.

Liam Batteau attends a summer immersion jazz workshop at Stanford University.

Sep 7, 2025 | News

“The first time I heard the instructors, it seemed like their playing touched me very deeply. I was engaged and intrigued by their playing, I was inspired,” Liam says.

Mollie Mandell studies “Biology and Its Modern Applications” at the University of Chicago Summer Immersion Program.

Mollie Mandell studies “Biology and Its Modern Applications” at the University of Chicago Summer Immersion Program.

Sep 1, 2025 | News

After meeting her roommate, an international student from China, Mollie and her her friend Aashna attended orientation, and went on a campus tour.

Alexei Kadyrov attends the Washington University Research Development Institute.

Alexei Kadyrov attends the Washington University Research Development Institute.

Aug 25, 2025 | News

Alexei reports that during his first week, the class was taught how to analyze primary and secondary sources, thinking critically about similar elements and differences. The class also read and analyzed a short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” as one of his assignments for the course.

Alexei Kadyrov studies Combinatorics 1.5 at AwesomeMath

Alexei Kadyrov studies Combinatorics 1.5 at AwesomeMath

Aug 25, 2025 | News

“This first day was focused on the basics to combinatorics: definitions of common terms like sets and subsets, ways of counting like complementary counting, rule of product, and rule of sum,” Alexei explains.

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“To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.”

— Geraldine Brooks, March

“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

— Malcolm Forbes

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.”

— Edmund Burke

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”

— Khalil Gibran

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their
opinions, they cease to be mind.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

— W. Clement Stone

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

— Aristotle

“Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.”

— Frank McCourt

“All the resources we need are in the mind.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

— Winston Churchill

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

— Rene Descartes

“Nothing is at last sacred but the quality of your own mind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
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