"The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of……" — Gilbert Highet
"The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the light of matches which keep blowing out."
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31 Quotes by Gilbert Highet
Gilbert Highet has 31 quotes on this site.
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Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of…
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
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The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the…
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A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
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What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise…
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Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself…
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out…
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The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to…
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The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you…
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A good teacher is a determined person
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I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by…
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Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most…
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More Autobiography Quotes
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
— Kate Atkinson
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
— John Berger
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'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.
— Mary J. Blige
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data…
— Nicholas Delbanco
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Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.
— Robert Breault
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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so…
— Philip Roth
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
— Nikola Tesla
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But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when…
— Nikola Tesla
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When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
— Nikola Tesla
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A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
— Nikola Tesla
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