Quotes by Gilbert Highet

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and...

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Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to...

#Death

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old:...

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A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor...

#Gilbert Highet

A good teacher is a determined person.

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The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

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The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth...

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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

#Books