Gilbert Highet
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British classicist, writer, and historian (1906–1978)
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- Born
- 1906
- Died
- 1978
- Works
- 85
Top works
- Friedrich Engels, a biography
- Jabarūt al-ʻaql
- Book-of-the-Month Club
- James Wardrop
- Juvenal the satirist, a study
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Quotes
- “Do not try to make the brilliant pupil a replica of yourself.”
- “The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people.”
- “The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.”
- “These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice, as inaudible as the streams of sound conveyed by electric waves beyond the range of our hearing; and just as the touch of button on our stereo will fill the room with music, so by opening one of these volumes, one can call into range a voice far distant in time and space, and hear it speaking, mind to mind, heart to heart.”
- “Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, — forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.”
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- 1906-06-22
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- 1978-01-20
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1906 births1978 deaths20th-century American non-fiction writers20th-century British historiansAlumni of Balliol College, OxfordAlumni of the University of GlasgowAmerican literary criticsBritish Army General List officersBritish Army personnel of World War IIBritish emigrants to the United StatesColumbia University facultyFellows of St John's College, OxfordPeople educated at Hillhead High SchoolScottish classical scholarsScottish literary criticsScottish literary historiansWriters from Glasgow