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Benjamin Jowett
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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.”
Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In conversation with Logan Pearsall Smith, as reported in Smith's Unforgotten Years (1938) p. 169
“We have sought truth, and sometimes perhaps found it. But have we had any fun?”
Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Notebooks (1984) by Geoffrey Madan, p. 61
“Learn just enough of the subject [metaphysics] to enable your mind to get rid of it.”
Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Notebooks (1984) by Geoffrey Madan, p. 61
“Doubt comes in at the window, when Inquiry is denied at the door.”
Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[The office of the interpreter] is to read Scripture like any other book.”
Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard (p. 244).”
Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (p. 250).”
Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One man is as good as another until he has written a book.”
Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.”
Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source