39 Quotes by 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.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

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.

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.

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.

I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.