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

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Benjamin Jowettwas an English writer and classical scholar. Additionally, he was an administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, theologian, Anglican cleric, and translator of Plato and Thucydides.

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

Benjamin Jowett

British cleric and classics scholar (1817-1893)

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

British cleric and classics scholar (1817-1893)

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

Benjamin Jowett

British cleric and classics scholar (1817-1893)

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

British cleric and classics scholar (1817-1893)

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

Benjamin Jowett

British cleric and classics scholar (1817-1893)

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

Benjamin Jowett

British cleric and classics scholar (1817-1893)

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

Benjamin Jowett

British cleric and classics scholar (1817-1893)

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

Benjamin Jowett

British cleric and classics scholar (1817-1893)

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

Benjamin Jowett

British cleric and classics scholar (1817-1893)

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

British cleric and classics scholar (1817-1893)

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

Benjamin Jowett

British cleric and classics scholar (1817-1893)

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

Benjamin Jowett

British cleric and classics scholar (1817-1893)

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

Benjamin Jowett

British cleric and classics scholar (1817-1893)

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

Benjamin Jowett

British cleric and classics scholar (1817-1893)

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

Benjamin Jowett

British cleric and classics scholar (1817-1893)