I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no…

There was no title fight in any organization in the world that in my opinion was absurd for me to be a contender in.

— Josh Barnett

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“I hadn’t gone to Andover, or Horace Mann or Eton. My high school had been the average kind, and I’d been the best student…

— Diana Peterfreund

Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education…

— Anonymous

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

— Paul D. Boyer

Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write about other…

— Joel Stein

“But even if all agreed together, it would not be enough to have their teachings. For we shall never be mathematicians, say, even if…

— René Descartes

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Science will always raise philosophical questions like, is any scientific theory or model correct? How do we know? Are unobserved things real? etc. and…

— Tim Crane

“Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato:…

— Anonymous

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

— Gerhard Richter

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few,…

— Lactantius

If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,…

— Galileo Galilei

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.”

— Charles Dickens