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Top 10 Gilbert Murray Quotes (2025 Update)

Gilbert Murray Quote: “Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.”

1. “Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.”

— Gilbert Murray

Gilbert Murray Quote: “Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.”

2. “Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.”

— Gilbert Murray

Gilbert Murray Quote: “A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won’t go, there is no use beating it. You have to think and try till you find what is wrong. That is real education.”

3. “A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won’t go, there is no use beating it. You have to think and try till you find what is wrong. That is real education.”

— Gilbert Murray

Gilbert Murray Quote: “The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.”

4. “The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.”

— Gilbert Murray

Gilbert Murray Quote: “Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.”

5. “Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.”

— Gilbert Murray

Gilbert Murray Quote: “The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.”

6. “The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.”

— Gilbert Murray

Gilbert Murray Quote: “Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.”

7. “Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.”

— Gilbert Murray

Gilbert Murray Quote: “The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.”

8. “The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.”

— Gilbert Murray

Gilbert Murray Quote: “Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But he who garners day by day the good life, he is happiest.”

9. “Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But he who garners day by day the good life, he is happiest.”

— Gilbert Murray

Gilbert Murray Quote: “It is doubtless one of Aristotle’s great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.”

10. “It is doubtless one of Aristotle’s great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.”

— Gilbert Murray

Gilbert Murray Quote: “Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.”

11. “Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.”

— Gilbert Murray

Gilbert Murray Quote: “Things of a day! what are we and what not? A dream of a shaddow is man; yet when some god-given splendor falls, a glory of light comes over him and his life is sweet.”

12. “Things of a day! what are we and what not? A dream of a shaddow is man; yet when some god-given splendor falls, a glory of light comes over him and his life is sweet.”

— Gilbert Murray

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