"What is politics but persuading the public to……" — Gilbert Highet
"What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?"
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Gilbert Highet
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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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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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The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document…
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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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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate…
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The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out…
— Joseph Barbera
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Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure…
— Joyce Banda
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They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for…
— William Blake
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To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills…
— Hal Borland
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp…
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