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Benjamin Jowett Quotes
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Famous Quotes by Benjamin Jowett
- "One use of prayer is to maintain in us a higher standard and prevent our principles insensibly sinking to our practice, or to the practice of the world around us." —Benjamin Jowett on Christianity
- "When a man listens to the voice of the tempter within him, he is inclined to do as others do, not to resist when temptation seems great. But when he looks into the laws of God, and hears the words of Christ, his natural sense of right and wrong is restored to him, and he becomes elevated, purified, and sanctified." —Benjamin Jowett on Christianity
- "The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them." —Benjamin Jowett on Finance and Economics
- "You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say." —Benjamin Jowett on God
- "Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge." —Benjamin Jowett on Logic
Wikiquote Article on Benjamin Jowett
Benjamin Jowett (1817-04-15 â" 1893-10-01) was a theologian and classical scholar who became one of the great public figures of Victorian England. He was Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1855, Master of Balliol College, Oxford from 1870, and Vice-Chancellor of the university from 1882.
Sourced
- Doubt comes in at the window, when Inquiry is denied at the door.
- "On the Interpretation of Scripture", in the miscellany Essays and Reviews (1860)
- Research! Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
- Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.
- Evelyn Abbott and Lewis Campbell (eds.) The Letters of Benjamin Jowett (1899) p. 244.
- 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.
- Evelyn Abbott and Lewis Campbell (eds.) The Letters of Benjamin Jowett (1899) p. 250.
- One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
- Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
- We have sought truth, and sometimes perhaps found it. But have we had any fun?
- Quoted by Geoffrey Madan (1895-1947) in his Notebooks (1984) p. 61. ISBN 0192818708.
- Learn just enough of the subject [metaphysics] to enable your mind to get rid of it.
- Quoted in Geoffrey Madan's Notebooks (1984) p. 62.
Misattributed
- We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
- Actually from one of John Dewey's lectures, reprinted in his Reconstruction in Philosophy (2004), p. 96.
About 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.
- First come I. My name is Jâ"Wâ"TT.
There's no knowledge but I know it.
I am the Master of this College,
What I don't know isn't knowledge.
- The [Oxford tourist] guide would begin: "This, ladies and gentlemen, is Balliol College, one of the very holdest in the huniversity, and famous for the herudition of its scholars. The 'ead of Balliol College is called the Master. The present Master of Balliol is the celebrated Professor Benjamin Jowett, Regius Professor of Greek. Those are Professor Jowett's study-windows, and there" (here the ruffian would stoop down, take up a handful of gravel and throw it against the panes, bringing poor Jowett, livid with fury, to the window) "ladies and gentlemen, is Professor Benjamin Jowett himself."
- W S Walsh A Handy-book of Literary Curiosities (1893) pp. 640-1.
External links
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Benjamin Jowett
Works by Benjamin Jowett at Project Gutenberg
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