Benjamin Jowett > Quotes

“Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.”
― Benjamin Jowett

“The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money.”
― Benjamin Jowett

“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them”
― Benjamin Jowett

“Atheism or similar charges was not unusual among intellectuals, nor condemned by the masses. The prize-winning plays of Aristophanes were not merely atheist, but made fun of the gods and their prophets and oracles.”
― Benjamin Jowett, Phaedo

“Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.”
― Benjamin Jowett, The Statesman

“We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice, or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.”
― Benjamin Jowett

“One man is as good as another until he has written a book.”
― Benjamin Jowett, Letters of Benjamin Jowett, M.A. - Master Of Balliol College, Oxford

“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.”
― Benjamin Jowett

“Истинската мярка за нашето богатство е колко бихме стрували, ако изгубехме всичките си пари." ~ Benjamin Jowett”
― Benjamin Jowett

“The chief difference between us and them (the ancient Greeks) is, that they were slowly learning what we are in process of forgetting.”
― Benjamin Jowett, Euthyphro

“I have always felt a certain horror of political economists, since I heard one of them say that he feared the famine of 1848 in Ireland would not kill more than a million people, and that would scarcely be enough to do much good.”
― Benjamin Jowett