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Benjamin Jowett Quotes

Benjamin Jowett Quotes.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.
Benjamin Jowett
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard – both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.
Benjamin Jowett
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
Benjamin Jowett
If you don’t find a God by five o’clock this afternoon you must leave the college.
Benjamin Jowett
You’ve got to be success minded. You’ve got to feel that things are coming your way when you’re out selling; otherwise, you won’t be able to sell anything.
Benjamin Jowett
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
Benjamin Jowett
Give the clergy your sympathy; don’t give them anything else.
Benjamin Jowett
Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.
Benjamin Jowett
It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.
Benjamin Jowett
We can’t search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.
Benjamin Jowett
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
Benjamin Jowett
You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.
Benjamin Jowett
Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.
Benjamin Jowett
My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
Benjamin Jowett
Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.
Benjamin Jowett
There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants – more than anything else – to become rich. As long as they don’t have the money, it’ll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they’ll understand how important other things are – and have always been.
Benjamin Jowett
Plato’s dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
Benjamin Jowett
All translation is a compromise – the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
Benjamin Jowett
Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
Benjamin Jowett
Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
Benjamin Jowett
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Benjamin Jowett
Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
Benjamin Jowett
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
Benjamin Jowett
I am not blaming the past. … But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.
Benjamin Jowett
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
Benjamin Jowett