J. H. Jowett Quotes

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

Benjamin Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

#3. May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.

John Henry Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

#6. 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

#7. Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.

Benjamin Jowett

#8. Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength.

John Henry Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

#10. All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.

John Henry Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Benjamin Jowett

#15. Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.

Benjamin Jowett

#16. Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home.

John Henry Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

#22. Atheism or similar charges was not unusual among intellectuals, nor condemned by the masses. The prize-winning plays of Aristophanes were not merely atheist, but made fun of the gods and their prophets and oracles.

Benjamin Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

#24. Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

John Henry Jowett

#25. First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am Master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.

Henry Beeching

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

Benjamin Jowett

#27. Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

John Henry Jowett

#28. Death is not the master of the house, he is only the porter of the king's lodge.

John Henry Jowett

#29. It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.

John Henry Jowett

#30. When the Universe attains Versistasis, everything will cease to exist and be create in the perfected dual moment.

Jason Jowett