Quotes About Jowett

#1. I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia - by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best.
(tr Jowett)

Plato

#2. 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.

Benjamin Jowett

#3. 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

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

Benjamin Jowett

#5. The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money.

Benjamin Jowett

#6. 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

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

Benjamin Jowett

#8. 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

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

Benjamin Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

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

John Henry Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

#14. Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.

Benjamin Jowett

#15. If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.

John Henry Jowett

#16. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.

John Henry Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

#18. One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Benjamin Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

#21. Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

John Henry Jowett

#22. God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

John Henry Jowett

#23. Ministry that costs nothing, accomplishes nothing.

John Henry Jowett

#24. The only really fatal element in defeat is the resolution not to try again.

John Henry Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

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

John Henry Jowett

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

Jason Jowett

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

John Henry Jowett

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

John Henry Jowett

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

John Henry Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

#32. 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

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

Benjamin Jowett

#34. 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

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

Benjamin Jowett

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

John Henry Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

#39. 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

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

Benjamin Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

#43. 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

#44. 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

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

Benjamin Jowett