Quotes from Benjamin Jowett

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

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

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

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

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

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

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

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

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

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.

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.

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.

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