Best Quotes by Gilbert Highet (Top 9)

  1. 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 as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.
  2. What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
  3. These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
  4. Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
  5. The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
  6. The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.
  7. A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
  8. A good teacher is a determined person.
  9. 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 it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.