Benjamin Jowett famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
-- Benjamin Jowett

#Life #Positive #Business
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
-- Benjamin Jowett

#Life #Beautiful #Work
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
-- Benjamin Jowett

#Effort #Language #Compromise
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

#Real #Grace #Energy
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

#Educational #Men #May
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
-- Benjamin Jowett

#Peace #Kindness #Unique
Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.
-- Benjamin Jowett

#Inspirational #Doors #Doubt
If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.
-- Benjamin Jowett

#College #Scary #Afternoon
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

#Men #Air #Oxford
I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.
-- Benjamin Jowett

#Peace #Past #Want
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

#Able #Way #Selling
My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
-- Benjamin Jowett

#Children #Believe #Dear God
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
-- Benjamin Jowett

#Book #Men
Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
-- Benjamin Jowett

#Plato #Play #Bears
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

#Feelings #Taste #Inscriptions
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
-- Benjamin Jowett

#Life #Mistake #Men
There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.
-- Benjamin Jowett

#Truth #Lying #Character
Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
-- Benjamin Jowett

#Science #Research #Excuse

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