These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. — Gilbert Highet Alive Copy Share Image
The art of invective resembles the art of boxing. Very few fights are won with the straight left. It is too obvious,… — Gilbert Highet Arms Copy Share Image
The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work. — Gilbert Highet Knows Copy Share Image
The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and… — Gilbert Highet Duty Copy Share Image
Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be… — Gilbert Highet Communication Copy Share Image
Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching. — Gilbert Highet Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Books are not lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves!” — Gilbert Highet Books Copy Share Image
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? — Gilbert Highet Endure Copy Share Image
History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much… — Gilbert Highet Airplane Copy Share Image
“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves.” — Gilbert Highet Book Copy Share Image
Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it. — Gilbert Highet Enjoy Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, -… — Gilbert Highet Age Copy Share Image
The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own… — Gilbert Highet Conscious Copy Share Image
Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness. — Gilbert Highet Deals Copy Share Image
A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh. — Gilbert Highet Education Copy Share Image
He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become… — Gilbert Highet Be young Copy Share Image
“Vergil preferred to give a few touches, and to allow the imagination of his readers to fill out the picture: that is… — Gilbert Highet Art Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare's bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation into English of the French translation… — Gilbert Highet Literature Copy Share Image
People learn more quickly by doing something or seeing something done. — Gilbert Highet Done Copy Share Image
The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching. — Gilbert Highet Children Copy Share Image
Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from… — Gilbert Highet Careless Copy Share Image
At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor… — Gilbert Highet Authority Copy Share Image
Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death. — Gilbert Highet Death Copy Share Image
Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We… — Gilbert Highet Beginners Copy Share Image
