Quotes by Benjamin Jowett

• Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
• The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
• Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
• 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.
• You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.
• We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
• 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.
• 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.
• Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
• Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.
• My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
• Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
• Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.
• The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
• One man is as good as another until he has written a book.