Benjamin Jowett
Benjamin Jowett
Benjamin Jowettwas renowned as an influential tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, a theologian and translator of Plato and Thucydides. He was Master of Balliol College, Oxford...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth15 April 1817
inspirational doors doubt
Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.
important world pushing
It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.
truth lying character
There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.
kindness justice action
We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.
effort language compromise
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
educational men may
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.
giving clergy
Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.
life beautiful work
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
life positive business
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
believe god
You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.
cost rewards society won
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
art neither nor science
Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
excuse mere results slightest
Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.