Benjamin Jowett Quotes


"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."
- Benjamin Jowett
(Related: Credit, Mind)

"Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much."
- Benjamin Jowett
(Related: Love, Men, Life, Mistakes)

"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
(Related: Success, Selling)

"You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say."
- Benjamin Jowett
(Related: God)

"We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique."
- Benjamin Jowett
(Related: Health, Action, Wealth, Justice, Kindness, Learning)

"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
(Related: Man, May, Service)

"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
(Related: Money, Goal, Thinking)

"Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value."
- Benjamin Jowett
(Related: Idleness, Results, Value, Will)

"Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard."
- Benjamin Jowett
(Related: Feeling, Taste)

"My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you."
- Benjamin Jowett
(Related: God)

"Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge."
- Benjamin Jowett
(Related: Science, Art, Logic)

"Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door."
- Benjamin Jowett
(Related: Doubt)

"The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality."
- Benjamin Jowett
(Related: Society, Personality)

"One man is as good as another until he has written a book."
- Benjamin Jowett
(Related: Man)