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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.”

Celebrating GFF alumni who have recently graduated from high school.

Celebrating GFF alumni who have recently graduated from high school.

Jun 2, 2025 | News, Where Are They Now? — 2025

The students talk about their future educational plans and how GFF programs have shaped their career paths.

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Words of Wisdom

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

— W. Clement Stone

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

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

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

— Geraldine Brooks, March

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

— Aristotle

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Malcolm Forbes

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

— Aristotle

“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

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

— Rene Descartes

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

— Plutarch

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“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

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

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

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

— Frank McCourt

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus
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