Gilbert Highet Quotes

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

In life we always have to learn something, I learn everything daily.

Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.

Unlike physical progress, which is subject to natural restrictions, the qualities of the mind can be developed limitlessly.

As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.

Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension

travel is compost for the mind

The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

Education forms the common mind.

i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read" "read what?" "everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think.

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

Anything that's expanding the mind and heart is happiness. But it's not a goal.

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

I'm kind of interested in learning to learn and grow and challenge myself. I think I've been very fortunate in that my books are pretty different from one novel to the next. There's a lot of things that are similar but in terms of tone and the scale and how they interact with history and just the different styles as well.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.

It is a gift when someone can challenge you and open your mind to new ideas.