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Garwin Family Foundation

P.O. Box 322
Carbondale, Illinois 62903

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Words of Wisdom

“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

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

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Rene Descartes

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

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

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

— Malcolm Forbes

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

— Aristotle

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

— Geraldine Brooks, March

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

— Frank McCourt

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

— Plutarch

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

— Edmund Burke

“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

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— W. Clement Stone

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Aristotle

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

— Winston Churchill
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