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One Quotes by Gilbert Highet
- The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought…
- These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just…
- Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.
- The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how…
- A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle