Benjamin Jowett
British theologian
Lived from: 1817 - 1893
Category: Philosophers Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 15 april 1817 Died: 1 october 1893
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I hope our young men will not grow into such dodgers as these old men are. I believe everything that a young man says to me (p. 250).
Letters― Benjamin Jowett -
If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.
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It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.
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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.
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Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
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Research! Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
In conversation with Logan Pearsall Smith. Reported in Smiths Unforgotten Years― Benjamin Jowett -
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
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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.
Attributed. Also attributed to Anita Loos.― 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.
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We have sought truth, and sometimes perhaps found it. But have we had any fun?
Quoted by Geoffrey Madan― Benjamin Jowett
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