Stephen Cole Kleene Quotes

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

I spent a lot of time in college. I was just being academic and discovering myself through reason and analysis.

By the time I got to college, mind expansion had lost its appeal.

That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.

My college experience was like everyone else's. I learned a lot. I gained a new perspective on the world and on people that I'm so thankful and appreciative for.

It wasn't until I got to college and had a lot of my ego beaten out of me... That's when I started to turn to literature as something deeper than a way to put up points.

College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.

For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

You know how when you get older you actually want to learn? When I went to college, I wasn't as interested in the art history classes as I am now.

I definitely want to continue being an actress. I love it. The reason I'm going to college is because I do want knowledge in another field. College isn't the college experience for me. I'm not going to be in a sorority. I'm not going to network. I'm not even really going to make my lifelong friends.

Living in Chicago as a country boy, basically, and going to college made a very big impact on me.

Obviously, college was an unbelievable experience.

It is in college that one gathers confidence as the mind is open to ideologies.

When I came to BYU, I had no idea what I wanted to study. It really was a decision based on football. I wanted to come here and play football. The decision has turned out to be so much more than football.

In my mid-twenties, I was with a conducting career, but I had never been to university and I wanted to. There were things I wanted to study in depth. I also wanted to see if I could survive without music.

College was such a pivotal time for me. It's a time when you have so much growth, and you kind of can choose one of many different paths.

College had a great deal to do with my development as a person. I don't know if I'd be the artist I was if it wasn't for goin' to school like that. School is a good place - it ain't for everybody, but I think it's for most people.

College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.

The primary purpose of going to college isn't to get a great job. The primary purpose of college is to build a strong mind, which leads to greater self-awareness, capability, fulfillment, and service opportunities, which, incidentally, should lead to a better job.

I loved the college experience of studying.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

I think and that is all that I am.