Benjamin Jowett quotes

" The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. " # Achievement # Freedom # Power

" One man is as good as another until he has written a book. " # Books - Reading

" 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. " # Service # Learning # Teachers and Teaching

" You must believe in God in spite of what the clergy say. " # Churches # God # Belief

" Doubt comes in at the window, when Inquiry is denied at the door. " # Doubt # Opportunity # Truth

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

" Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard. " # Purpose # Taste # Love

" 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. " # Hope # Age and Aging # Belief

" Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge. " # Science and Scientists # Arts and Artists # Consequences

" We have sought truth, and sometimes perhaps found it. But have we had any fun? " # Truth # Love # Happiness