39 Quotes by 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.

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

If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.

Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.

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.

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.