Three Greatest Quotes by Gilbert Highet

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Gilbert Highet has 32 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We…
• These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
• The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one…
• A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
• What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
• Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
• These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own…
• The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and…
• The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live…
• A good teacher is a determined person
• The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a…
• I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.

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