Benjamin Jowett was a renowned British scholar and educator, born on April 15, 1817, and died on October 1, 1893. He served as a tutor at Oxford University, where he had a profound impact on British education and academia.
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Source: Phaedo
“If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.”
“It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.”
“Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.”
“Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.”
“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.”
“Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.”
“Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.”
Source: Letters of Benjamin Jowett
“Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.”
Source: Essays and Reviews
“All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.”
Source: Letters of Benjamin Jowett
“Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.”
“One man is as good as another until he has written a book.”
“My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.”
“I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.”