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

Benjamin Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

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

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

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

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

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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.

Benjamin Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

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

Benjamin Jowett

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:

Essays and Reviews (1860)
College sermons

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