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

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Doubt comes in at the window, when Inquiry is denied at the door.

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

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To a student who had justified his absence from early morning chapel with loss of faith:
You will find God by tomorrow morning, or leave this college.

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

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

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We have sought truth, and sometimes perhaps found it. But have we had any fun?

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

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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

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[The office of the interpreter] is to read Scripture like any other book.

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Learn just enough of the subject [metaphysics] to enable your mind to get rid of it.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Benjamin Jowett

Benjamin Jowett
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Born: April 15, 1817
Died: October 1, 1893 (aged 76)
Bio: Benjamin Jowett was renowned as an influential tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, a theologian and translator of Plato and Thucydides. He was Master of Balliol College, Oxford.
Known for:
  1. Essays and Reviews (1860)
  2. College sermons

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